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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. In 2006, Stroganov and an associate Gerasim Silivanon (a.k.a. authorities in 2017.

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National Cybersecurity Alliance advocates ‘shared responsibility’ for securing the Internet

The Last Watchdog

The National Cyber Security Alliance is a non-profit group, underwritten by the top tech companies and biggest banks, that has been out there since 2001 promoting best practices and supplying programs to engrain this mindset in our society. A large retailer may spend millions on cyber security.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001. Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies.

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Mainframes, Freight Trains and Education Pains

Rocket Software

To be fair, I was in school in the early aughts, from 2001 to 2004; this type of talk was fully accepted. The numbers are certainly out there, and those of us who work in big financial and retail can tell you that they haven’t declined the way others had expected them to. It evoked eye-rolls and headshakes from every 19-year-old.

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#ModernDataMasters: Scott Taylor, “The Data Whisperer”

Reltio

2001 is way up there in terms of that journey – anyone who tells a great story – that’s what I love. It’s not as cool sounding but that is where the reality is.”. Which is your favourite science fiction book, programme or film and why? Science fiction? OK, can I say Toy Story ? Well any fiction then. So The Godfather.

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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.