Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2020

Experts at cyber security firm Cypher conducted a study on Portuguese domains during 2019 and concluded that Emotet and Ryuk were the most active threats. This is the conclusion of a study by Cipher Portugal, which studied Portuguese domains during 2019. This enhancement appeared in the middle of September 2019.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

The securWizCase experts found a major breach that affected the popular online retailer Cosmolog Kozmetik. l, has found a major breach in popular online retailer Cosmolog Kozmetik’s database. There was no need for a password or login credentials to access this information, and the data was not encrypted. What’s Happening?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

billion in revenue for 2019. “On July 28, 2020, Mattel discovered that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on its information technology systems that caused data on a number of systems to be encrypted. . The good news that the company excluded the theft of internal information. ” reads the 10-Q form.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. Operators behind the attacks were spreading a new version of the Mespinoza ransomware (aka Pysa ransomware). continues the report.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

which was renamed to NortonLifeLock in 2019 (LifeLock is now included in the Norton 360 service). “The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based based NortonLifeLock Inc. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Fuel sales at our retail locations continue unhindered. “Multiple sources have told ZDNet the cyber-attack is a ransomware infection that infected and then encrypted some of the company’s backend servers.” This family of ransomware involved in the attack was also spotted by researcher Vitali Kremez in December 2019.

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2019

Cybercrime gang tracked as TA505 has been active since 2014 and focusing on Retail and Banking industries. This new variant was behind a series of ransomware campaigns beginning in June 2019, including attacks against the City of Edcouch, Texas and the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture.” ” continues the analysis.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 24, 2020

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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2021

A bold move by the retail giant which aims to offer the complete shopping journey for customers by changing how identification at check-in can substitute authentication at check-out for payment. The financial sector has long embraced innovation in tandem with the security industry and more recently, the retail industry.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States in fifty states. 2/2) Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details which are encrypted and tokenized. Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details, which are encrypted and tokenized.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In December 2019, Maastricht University (UM) announced that ransomware infected almost all of its Windows systems on December 23. It is unclear if the attackers have exfiltrated data from the systems before encrypting them. The attacker focused on encrypting data files in the Windows domain.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The incidence of ransomware attacks has continued to climb, over 700% by some estimates in 2020 in comparison to 2019, with phishing emails being the primary vector. Many online retailers depend heavily on outreach and advertising via email and social media networks to bolster their sales through the holiday season.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Legitimate retailers are never going to make you dig for the deals, so they aren’t going to put the good stuff in an attachment. It’s not just attachments from retailers, but also from shipping companies or financial institutions. According to the Better Business Bureau, 37.9% On top of that, 80.5% Change your passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill. Last February, Dallas-based email encryption vendor Zix Corp. So far in 2019, we’re seeing another shift back to ransomware, Gill told me. You can give a listen to the entire interview at this accompanying podcast.

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Data Matters

JUNE 3, 2019

The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) released two Risk Alerts, on April 16, 2019 and May 23, 2019, highlighting the importance of privacy and cybersecurity compliance for SEC-registered investment advisors and broker-dealers under Regulation S-P.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss that question with Catherine Allen, chairman and CEO of the Santa Fe Group, and Mike Jordan, senior director of Santa Fe’s Shared Assessments program. And once you have that, then you have the ability to reverse algorithms and unlock encryption. It’s membership and cross-industry driven.”

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IT Governance

JUNE 11, 2019

The breach occurred between 23 April and 4 May 2019, potentially affecting anyone who has made a purchase through shop.lcfc.com. Upon discovery of the breach, the security of our retail platform was immediately restored and appropriate measures were taken to ensure the security of all other online assets,” the statement read.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 21 February 2019. According to Edgescan’s 2019 Vulnerability Statistics Report , more than 81% of systems have at least one known vulnerability for which there is an available patch or workaround. Here are this week’s stories. million users – are all potentially affected.

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Info Source

JANUARY 31, 2019

31, 2019 – Ephesoft, Inc. , Examples include retailers’ invoices and credit card applications during Cyber Monday and other shopping holidays; tax firms’ form processing during tax season; mortgage lender applications or loans during prime real estate seasons; and insurance company claims after a natural disaster. IRVINE, Calif. –

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

EMV Chip, Pointto -Point Encryption, Tokenization, etc.) FIN8 is a financially motivated group that has been active since at least 2016 and often targets the POS environments of the retail, restaurant, and hospitality merchants to harvest payment account data. and non-compliance with PCI DSS. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. ” SEPTEMBER.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 9, 2020

While ransomware and leaky or completely unprotected databases dominated headlines in 2019, e-skimmers quietly made a killing. The retailer wasn’t alone. It doesn’t matter if the site is encrypted or you see the green padlock by a URL. A vigilant retail environment reduces everyone’s attackable surface.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

One criminal gang said that it had targeted the organisation and encrypted its systems. More worryingly, the same database contained usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Reports suggest that the group is stealing the data rather than encrypting the organisations’ systems and holding them to ransom.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ransomware is a specific type of malware that encrypts computer files, essentially locking the owner out of their systems. Unlike an attack on retailers, for example, victims have no alternative when systems are down. What is ransomware? Over that six-month period, local government experienced 263 million attacks.

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Info Source

DECEMBER 10, 2019

December 10, 2019 – IDT, a long-standing integration partner of Kodak Alaris, is collaborating with Retarus to provide a fully integrated, easy to use “scan to fax” solution. For a 1,000-location retail store chain, this could exceed $720,000 annual savings. ROCHESTER, N.Y., per month in analog fax line charges. Small form factor.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

During the 2019 holiday season, the Barracuda research team analyzed 4,200 Android apps related to shopping, Santa, and games. 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. How to Defend Against Ransomware.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2019

Traditionally, the average price for card data nabbed from online retailers — referred to in the underground as “ CVVs ” — has ranged somewhere between $2 and $8 per account. All of which means e-commerce retailers need to be stepping up their game when it comes to staving off card thieves.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2019

On May 22, 2019, the European Commission published an infographic on compliance with and enforcement of the GDPR from May 2018 to May 2019 and it is clear that a lot of work still needs to be done. Encryption and pseudonymization. What is the General Data Protection Regulation?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. Late 2019 and all of 2020 were marked by an unprecedented surge in ransomware attacks. Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network.

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