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The Security Pros and Cons of Using Email Aliases

Krebs on Security

For instance, if I were signing up at example.com, I might give my email address as krebsonsecurity+example@gmail.com. Then, I simply go back to my inbox and create a corresponding folder called “Example,” along with a new filter that sends any email addressed to that alias to the Example folder.

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Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards

Krebs on Security

Wawa said the breach did not expose personal identification numbers (PINs) or CVV records (the three-digit security code printed on the back of a payment card). Most card breaches at restaurants and other brick-and-mortar stores occur when cybercriminals manage to remotely install malicious software on the retailer’s card-processing systems.

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QR Codes: The future with no security shake up

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The development of chip and PIN addressed concerns over security, before the emergence of contactless catered to consumer demands for greater convenience. New technologies, particularly in advances in payments, will inevitably bring with them new security concerns. Convenience is king. Root of trust.

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The Rise of the Bad Bots

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In 2013, when Imperva first launched the Bad Bot Report, bad bots comprised 23.6% Bad bots are so prevalent in the gaming industry because users use them to cheat – for example, performing high-speed interactions that would be impossible for human players. of internet traffic, while good bots accounted for 19.4%

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

ForAllSecure

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. GDPR is a prominent example. Thus far, the breach has cost the retailer $61 million.

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

ForAllSecure

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. GDPR is a prominent example. Thus far, the breach has cost the retailer $61 million.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking IoT

ForAllSecure

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication.

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