Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Digital transformation (DX) is fundamentally impacting all aspects of the economy across every industry, and nowhere is this truer than in retail. But DX also introduces the potential to put sensitive customer and corporate data at risk by fundamentally changing where data needs to be protected and how it needs to be secured.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Future of Payments Security. 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. Securing digital transactions.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 16, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) released its report (the 2019 Report) setting forth its list of examination priorities for 2019 (the Exam Priorities). Continued Focus on Retail Investors. On December 20, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) of the U.S. capital markets.

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Retail Compliance Risk Marketing 68

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

So before the shopping frenzy begins, we thought this would be an opportune time to outline some best practices that both retailers and consumers should follow in order to protect consumer data. As convenience technologies evolve, look for more risks to consumers and retailers. Protecting Consumer Data is Priority #1.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2019

LightInTheBox is a Chinese online retailer trading on the New York Stock Exchange, most of its customers are in North America and Europe. “Led by cybersecurity analysts Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team discovered a leak in a database belonging to the online retailer LightInTheBox.” concludes the post.

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Retail e-Discovery Data breaches Sales 58

Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns of a surge of LockBit 2.0 The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warns of an escalation in LockBit 2.0 Experts warn of active exploitation of the CVE-2018-13379 , a security bug heavily exploited by LockBit to breach networks. ransomware. in Australia since 2020.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The organisation has disclosed few other facts in order to maintain “ the confidentiality of the investigation ”, but security researchers suspect that the attack was a form of BEC in which a third-party breach leads to the attack. It identified a 100% increase in financial losses between May 2018 and June 2019.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. The NHS was criticised for signing a deal with Amazon that allowed patients to access their health information via its Alexa voice assistant – potentially granting the online retail giant access to vast amounts of sensitive personal data.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The other three restaurants are all part of the same parent company and disclosed breaches in August 2019. Focus Brands (which owns Moe’s, McAlister’s, and Schlotzsky’s) was breached between April and July 2019, and publicly disclosed this on August 23. Krystal announced a card breach last month. percent worldwide.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Besides the traumatic experience for some retail employees and those injured in shop-floor brawls, Black Friday is also a time in which many of us are caught out by scams, with cyber criminals taking advantage of customers desperate for a bargain. It’s not 100% secure, but it’s much harder to tamper with than public Wi-Fi.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

According to a report published by cyber security firm Sixgill data for over 23 million payment card were on offer in underground forums in the first half of 2019. . The following graph shows that three trading posts accounted for 64 percent of the cards on offer during the first half of 2019. . AMEX accounted for 12 percent. .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 29, 2022

Its homepage includes a copy of my credit report, Social Security card, phone bill, and a fake but otherwise official looking government ID card. Briansclub updated its homepage with this information in 2019, after it got massively hacked and a copy of its customer database was shared with this author.

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Search queries Retail Government Marketing 361

Threatpost

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Overall, across all retail programs, more than 18 percent of all bug bounty submissions are critical in severity, a new Bugcrowd report found.

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Retail Sales IoT Cybersecurity 41

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Retail Manufacturing Ransomware Security 136

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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Insurance Paper Risk Analytics 68

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2021

They claim one of those databases holds the name, date of birth, SSN, drivers license information, plaintext security PIN, address and phone number of 36 million T-Mobile customers in the United States — all going back to the mid-1990s. In at least one case , retail store employees were complicit in the account takeovers.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2020

In October 2019, someone hacked BriansClub , a popular stolen card bazaar that uses this author’s likeness and name in its marketing. McCoy and fellow NYU researchers found BriansClub earned close to $104 million in gross revenue from 2015 to early 2019, and listed over 19 million unique card numbers for sale.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. They accessed 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 75

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 8, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Retail Law Resource blog , this week, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3 to 1 to accept a settlement agreement with MoviePass, Inc., The FTC’s complaint alleges that personal information—including names, gender, billing addresses, geolocation and credit card information—was exposed for four months in 2019.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

You’d therefore expect that the sector fares better at data security than your average organisation. The public data set on the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) website shows that data security isn’t necessarily better for financial organisations. What do the statistics say? million (about £4.70

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Bad news for fitness and bodybuilding passionates, the popular online retailer Bodybuilding.com announced that hackers have broken into its systems. The popular online retailer website Bodybuilding.com announced last week that hackers have broken into its systems. ” reads the announcement published on the website.

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Passwords Security Retail Personal data 62

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

The securWizCase experts found a major breach that affected the popular online retailer Cosmolog Kozmetik. WizCase’s security team, led by Ata Hakç?l, l, has found a major breach in popular online retailer Cosmolog Kozmetik’s database. Hundreds of thousands of users were compromised in the breach. What’s Happening?

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Data breaches Retail Privacy Sales 102

Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2020

The US-based children’s clothing maker and online retailer Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach, attackers planted an e-skimmer on its e-commerce platform. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . The malware was completely removed on November 11, 2019.

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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). “Norton creates a secure digital Ethereum wallet for each user,” the FAQ reads. “The key to the wallet is encrypted and stored securely in the cloud. ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based ”

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Security Affairs

JULY 6, 2020

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT has been stealing payment card data from customers of large retailers in the U.S. Sansec researchers reported that North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has been stealing payment card information from customers of large retailers in the U.S. and Europe for at least a year. and Europe for at least a year.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

It’s never a surprise to hear that Yahoo is implicated in a cyber security scam. The most likely victims tend to be older people, who don’t stay up to date with cyber security issues. The security researcher Brian Krebs reported on a curious phishing scam that targeted Connecticut-based United Rentals.

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Phishing Retail Cloud Data breaches 83

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A study reveals the list of worst passwords of 2019. Online Retailer LightInTheBox exposes unsecured DB containing 1.3TB of web server logs. Negative opinion of Italy security committee Copasir on Huawei, ZTE 5G solutions. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived!

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Security Ransomware Passwords Data breaches 55

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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Ransomware Retail Phishing Encryption 102

Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2020

Global lockdowns from COVID-19 have resulted in far fewer fraudsters willing or able to visit retail stores to use their counterfeit cards, and the decreased demand has severely depressed prices in the underground for purloined card data. An ad for a site selling stolen payment card data, circa March 2020. .

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Recent headlines underscore the security challenges faced by public-facing businesses. Join us on October 28, 2019, at 12:00 p.m. The SAFETY Act, administered by the Department of Homeland Security, is coming of age as an important tool to reduce risk and limit liability.

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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. No going back.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Access Financial Services Retail Insurance 82

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 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. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions. Senior Investors.

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Risk IT Compliance Marketing 60

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. earlier this year.

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Cloud Retail Access Government 237

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Publication of Secure Payment Confirmation as a Candidate Recommendation indicates that the feature set is stable and has received wide review.

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