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2022 Black Friday and Cyber Monday Scams

KnowBe4

Then, in 2005 the clever people at the National Retail Federation decided that an online frenzy of shopping was needed the Monday after Thanksgiving. In 2008, Cyber Monday hit the big time as Thanksgiving fell five days later than in 2007 so the people were hungry for the online deals. We know this Monday as Cyber Monday.

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North Korean Lazarus APT stole credit card data from US and EU stores

Security Affairs

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT has been stealing payment card data from customers of large retailers in the U.S. Sansec researchers reported that North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has been stealing payment card information from customers of large retailers in the U.S. and Europe for at least a year. and Europe for at least a year.

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Boyne Resorts ski and golf resort operator hit with WastedLocker ransomware

Security Affairs

The company owns and operates eleven properties and an outdoor lifestyle equipment/apparel retail division with stores in cities throughout Michigan. This group has been active since at least 2007, in December 2019, the U.S. An industry leader in multiple U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged Russian citizens Maksim V. (32)

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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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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: ThinkFree Portable Review

ChiefTech

Sunday, 22 April 2007 ThinkFree Portable Review A few days ago I received a trial version of ThinkFree Portable office suite on a U3 USB drive to review, care of Ismael Ghalimi. This is pretty good value when you consider that in Australia the basic Microsoft Office Standard 2007 suite for commercial users retails around AU$700.

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GOOG's A Steal Sez Analyst: Q4 Insight From Redacted Blog Post?

John Battelle's Searchblog

GOOG paid click volumes up double digits y/y across key retail categories. GOOG paid click volumes up double digits y/y across key retail categories. However, seeing key categories up 9-39% y/y is a positive, and indicates that consumers are still searching for retail products, deals and coupons.

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Target Data Breach Litigation: District Court Certifies Class of Financial Institutions

Hunton Privacy

Retail Sec. 2007) was the only financial data-breach case to reach the class certification stage, the court also distinguished the TJX denial of class certification based on that case’s misrepresentation and consumer-fraud claims. Noting that the case of In re TJX Cos. Breach Litig.,