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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 million, second only to healthcare.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Malware-based anonymity networks are a major source of unwanted and malicious web traffic directed at online retailers, Internet service providers (ISPs), social networks, email providers and financial institutions. com was registered in 2008 to an Adrian Crismaru from Chisinau, Moldova. DomainTools says myiptest[.]com

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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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Retailers must upgrade online credit card processing security by June 30

Data Protection Report

By June 30, 2018, retailers accepting digital (online) credit card transactions must cease using encryption protocols known as SSL or TLS 1.0. Retailers must transition to TLS 1.1 Encryption protocol TLS 1.0 was issued in 2008. so upgrading encryption may involve more than a quick protocol fix.

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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. While this sensitive payment data is only available for milliseconds before passing the encrypted numbers to back-end systems, attackers can still access millions of records. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers.

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