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Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring

Krebs on Security

Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. Flint is among the biggest players in the crowded underground market for stolen credit card data, according to a U.S.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

The report contains lots of facts and figures relevant to crypto policy debates, including the chaotic nature of crypto markets in the mid-1990s, the number of approved devices and libraries of various kinds since then, other standards that invoke AES, and so on. It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001.

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#ModernDataMasters: Scott Taylor, “The Data Whisperer”

Reltio

How important do you think data management knowledge is for business people – marketing professionals in particular? Marketing people, more and more, need to understand the technical underpinning of master data. – Is there a skills gap currently amongst marketers? Well yes, absolutely there’s a skills gap.

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Council of the European Union Releases Draft Compromise Text on the Proposed EU Data Protection Regulation

Hunton Privacy

The Presidency proposes parallel amendment of Regulation 45/2001 (on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community) to bring the processing activities of European Union bodies within scope of the Proposed Regulation (Recital 14a, Article 2(b)). Scope of the Proposed Regulation.