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The Clock is Ticking for PCI DSS 4.0 Compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. Secure data storage is closely related to encryption and key management. The Clock is Ticking for PCI DSS 4.0 The new version of the standard, PCI DSS 4.0,

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Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. Covering 14 years from Q3 2008 to Q2 2022, the figures show that in the last quarter the number of monthly active users dropped for the first time.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies. This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. Ransom trojan.

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