Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. The fraud bazaar Joker’s Stash on Monday began selling some 30 million stolen payment card accounts that experts say have been tied back to a breach at Wawa in 2019. Gemini monitors multiple carding sites like Joker’s Stash.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This series provides real-life examples of phishing emails, helping you understand how they work and what you should do to avoid falling victim. Here’s an example of a phishing scam Yahoo Mail customers received this month: The message isn’t particularly convincing, and we’d expect anyone familiar with phishing scams to spot the clues.

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

‘People are strange, when you’re a stranger’: A retail bank view into artificial intelligence. Wed, 09/04/2019 - 00:02. The bank would need to know which systems to access for the data, identify the context of the customer interaction (For example, does the customer want a mortgage? A checking account?), The data opportunity.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2019 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) in New York City from August 3 to 6, 2019. The amended regulation took effect on August 1, 2019, for annuity products and will become effective on February 1, 2020, for life insurance products.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2019

21, 2019, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo after discovering strong evidence that two million credit and debit card numbers belonging to the company’s customers were being sold in the cybercrime underground. In a statement posted to its Web site today, Orlando, Fla.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2019

Sources say PCM discovered the intrusion in mid-May 2019. One security expert at a PCM customer who was recently notified about the incident said the intruders appeared primarily interested in stealing information that could be used to conduct gift card fraud at various retailers and financial institutions. El Segundo, Calif.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Although the total number of data breaches – or rather, in those reported – decreased by 24% between 2019 and 2022 in the finance sector, the number of incidents increased by 99%. So to account for seasonality, we’ve only looked at Q2–Q4 for all four years (2019–2022). million (about £4.70

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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. Fraud and scams move to the web. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020. Securing digital transactions.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 29, 2019

On January 17, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released its annual Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter (Letter), which identifies topics that FINRA will focus on in 2019. 3 For example, we note that firms often must to show an empirical basis for their trade thresholds, such as order size or message rates.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Russian TA505 hacking group , aka Evil Corp , has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. The ServHelper backdoor is written in Delphi and according to the experts, the development team continues to update it by implementing new features since 2019.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 GDPR is a prominent example. In a May 2019 financial earnings call, Equifax disclosed that the cybersecurity incident cost the organization $1.4 Thus far, the breach has cost the retailer $61 million. million dollars. Damaged reputation.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 GDPR is a prominent example. In a May 2019 financial earnings call, Equifax disclosed that the cybersecurity incident cost the organization $1.4 Thus far, the breach has cost the retailer $61 million. million dollars. Damaged reputation.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

But in the US, Black Friday refers to the discounts that retailers offer the day after Thanksgiving – and thanks to the rise in online shopping (which will be even more prominent this year with COVID-19), it has become a global custom. A version of this blog was originally published on 27 November 2019. Exploiting public Wi-Fi.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

Customer authentication For the past 15 years, e-commerce has increased as a percentage of all retail sales. for example, Microsoft merchant experiences with SCA under PSD2 ). W3C will seek additional implementation experience prior to advancing this version of Secure Payment Confirmation to Recommendation.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone. at , a thriving fraud bazaar named after this author. million more. million cards.

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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. For example, Gill pointed to the Eternal Blue exploit that was infamously stolen from NSA, and then posted publicly, free for anyone to use, by the Shadowbrokers’ crew. So far in 2019, we’re seeing another shift back to ransomware, Gill told me.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The only way to protect yourself is to make a habit of looking for signs of bogus websites – like URLs that look slightly off (annazon.co.uk, with two ‘n’s for example) and those that don’t have a lock symbol on the left side of the address bar. A version of this blog was originally published on 27 November 2019. Get started.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 15, 2021

In late 2019, the Claimant issued proceedings and sought various relief, including in connection with an allegation that the Defendant had failed to provide data, contrary to the Data Protection Act 2018 ( “DPA 18” ) and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ( “GDPR” ).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2020

According to industry researchers, TA505 is known to have carried out attacks on banks, medical institutions retailers and other businesses in the past. There is always a possibility that Silence’s tools could have been sold to another threat actor or borrowed by TA505, for example. The former has been active since late January 2020.

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IT Governance

JULY 13, 2021

For example, an employee might email sensitive information to the wrong person and the error may never come to light. The healthcare and health sciences sector, which suffered the most number of breaches in 2019 and 2020, was second with 76 disclosures.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

APRIL 16, 2019

The Guidelines 2/2019 on the processing of personal data under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR in the context of the provision of online services to data subjects (adopted on April 9, 2019 and open for consultation until May 24, 2019) provide a detailed assessment of the regulator’s interpretation of the law.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

On November 18, 2019, the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, which is part of The English Law Society’s LawTech Delivery Panel , published its Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts (the Legal Statement). 7 For example, of the type hypothesized by Ian Grigg (i.e., 10 “EBA reports on crypto-assets,” January 9, 2019.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

On November 18, 2019, the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, which is part of The English Law Society’s LawTech Delivery Panel , published its Legal Statement on the status of cryptoassets and smart contracts (the Legal Statement). 7 For example, of the type hypothesized by Ian Grigg (i.e., 10 “EBA reports on crypto-assets,” January 9, 2019.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig dll with a real-world example. A study reveals the list of worst passwords of 2019. Online Retailer LightInTheBox exposes unsecured DB containing 1.3TB of web server logs. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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CGI

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Tue, 10/15/2019 - 01:47. We are now on the cusp of a major revolution—something that will be as big for banks as the internet was for retail businesses. It should be clear, for example, how the project would deliver real return on investment for the business. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. What’s driving this momentous change?

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 24, 2022

Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. For example, Green complains that “credit card merchant fees are similar, or have actually risen in the United States since the 1990s.” Green is right about how unfair this is.

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Wed, 09/25/2019 - 04:12. Consider, for example, the U.S. In Sweden and the Netherlands, retailers can choose their preferred payment method, with no obligation to accept cash, so activities like buying a bus ticket prove difficult for tourists or the young when using cash is not an option. Who pays in the cashless society?

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss this war of attrition with Will LaSala, director of security services and security evangelist at OneSpan, a Chicago-based provider of anti-fraud, e-signature and digital identity solutions to 2,000 banks worldwide. I could set up a fake website, and people would go to the website.’”.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

Pick any company in any vertical – financial services, government, defense, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retailing, travel and hospitality – and you’ll find employees, partners, third-party suppliers and customers all demanding remote access to an expanding menu of apps — using their smartphones and laptops.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In another example, participating sites could use Project Verify to supplement or replace existing authentication processes, such as two-factor methods that currently rely on sending the user a one-time passcode via SMS/text messages, which can be intercepted by cybercrooks.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

As a vertically integrated company, Luxottica designs, manufactures, distributes and retails its eyewear brands, including LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Target Optical, Eyemed vision care plan, and Glasses.com. billion in revenue for 2019. Luxottica Group S.p.A.

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Reltio

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Subscription box services like Dollar Shave Club, Birchbox, Hygge and Blue Apron are continuing to surge in popularity likely due to online sales passing store sales for the first time in mid-2019. Within four years, the industry around these consumer product and retail companies grew 890% based on a recent survey by Hitwise.

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Data Protection Report

APRIL 16, 2020

It also published a report following a “cookie sweep” that took place between August 2019 and December 2019 of 38 data controllers (the “ Report ”). Last week, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“ DPC ”) published its much anticipated guidance note on cookies and similar tracking technologies (the “ Guidance ”).

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CGI

MAY 2, 2019

Thu, 05/02/2019 - 05:36. utilities, retailers etc.) In retail we have seen Amazon who have done it well and are on their way to achieve their vision statement “We seek to become Earth’s most customer centric company”. The drive to customer centricity. as this was their IP and differentiator from their competitors.

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CGI

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Tue, 10/29/2019 - 11:12. Manufacturers and retailers face a major challenge to put the customer at the heart of their supply chain. E-commerce and m-commerce, for example, generate a continuous surge of flows and volume across multiple sales channels. Moving from the supply chain to the “demand chain” to meet customer needs.

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Info Source

OCTOBER 29, 2020

billion in 2020 and overall cloud spending to reach $257 billion in 2020 compared to $242 billion in 2019; with continued growth in 2021 and 2022. billion in 2019; $1.58 percent compared to the same April to August period in 2019.”. Within the overall decrease, they predict infrastructure-as-a-service to grow 13.5%

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

On January 18, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter 2019-1 (the Circular Letter), addressing insurers’ use of external consumer data and information sources in underwriting for life insurance.

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