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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

The program grew over the years into what it is today, a collaborative consortium of professionals from the banking, investing, insurance, healthcare, retail and telecom industries as well as academics and GRC (government, risk-management and compliance) specialists. Advancing best practices.

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Cash versus digital payments: How to achieve financial inclusion

IBM Big Data Hub

AliPay also introduced its “Smile to Pay” facial recognition application on mobile devices in 2017, which allows customers to make purchases by posing in front of point-of-sale machines. ban makes access to retailers more equitable for the unbanked, but it doesn’t address the root cause of being unbanked in the first place.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites. While this case study is just a snapshot, vigilance in the app store is required. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers. Bots and Botnets.

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