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Hidden Cobra APT used the new ATM cash-out scheme FASTCash to hit banks worldwide

Security Affairs

This threat actor has been active since at least 2009, possibly as early as 2007, and it was involved in both cyber espionage campaigns and sabotage activities aimed to destroy data and disrupt systems. “ FASTCash schemes remotely compromise payment switch application servers within banks to facilitate fraudulent transactions.

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Online Behavioral Advertising: European Commission launches infringement proceedings against the UK

Hunton Privacy

The EU Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has called upon the UK to change its national laws to ensure the confidentiality of communications by prohibiting interception and surveillance without the user’s consent. British Telecom acknowledged in April 2008 that it had used Phorm without customer consent in 2006 and in 2007.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: The Hidden Web: Microformats and the The Next Internet

ChiefTech

In the future you will boot up your shopping application of choice; maybe its open source or even provided by a retailer. Or maybe you need to communicate. You’ll use your PDA-phone or the communication Web appliance on your wireless laptop. . ©2005-2009. Please seek advice for specific circumstances.

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Summary – “Industry in One: Financial Services”

ARMA International

Shaped by several financial catastrophes of modern history, such as the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2007, the U.S. Electronic Communications Retention and Supervision. Such new e-communication technologies include social media, blogs, instant messaging, audio and video recordings, and websites.

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Predictions 2024: It’s All About The Data

John Battelle's Searchblog

The “fediverse” is, according to Wikipedia, “…a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”… is an ensemble of social networks which can communicate with each other, while remaining independent platforms. Why can’t the data from retail media networks inform supply chains, for example?

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MY TAKE: Here’s how ‘bulletproof proxies’ help criminals put compromised IoT devices to work

The Last Watchdog

Between Q1 2019 and Q2 2019, malicious communications emanating from residential IP addresses in the U.S. namely smart refrigerators, garage doors, home routers and the like – nearly quadrupled for the retail and financial services sectors. In the same time frame, US-based retail companies experienced roughly an 800% spike.

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