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Retail Privacy Network

Data Matters

You are invited to join privacy professionals in the retail sector for topical conversation, learning and networking at the first Retail Privacy Network meeting. This interactive meeting will include hot topics in UK/EU data privacy and cybersecurity with practical case studies on retail industry issues. RSVP for this event.

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Record Levels of Software Bugs Plague Short-Staffed IT Teams in 2020

Threatpost

retailers have vulnerabilities which pose an “imminent” cyber-threat, including Amazon, Costco, Kroger and Walmart. As just one symptom, 83 percent of the Top 30 U.S.

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11 cyber security predictions for 2020

IT Governance

The retail and hospitality industries will continue to have their POS equipment targeted. Despite the rise in sophisticated attacks, 2020 will continue to see newbies and unskilled attackers using toolkits from the dark web to launch scams (such as sexploitation), and phishing and ransomware attacks.

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6 ecommerce trends to watch

IBM Big Data Hub

Some forecasts suggest online retail might be responsible for half of all retail revenues by next year. In what McKinsey refers to as “the e-commerce catch-22,” many retailers with significant growth in ecommerce sales through 2020 and 2021 saw their margins decline.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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COVID-19 ‘Breach Bubble’ Waiting to Pop?

Krebs on Security

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. Image: Gemini Advisory. .

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2020 National Meeting

Data Matters

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2020 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) from July 27 to August 14, 2020. The NAIC adopted the revised SAT in February 2020, and since that time, several states, including Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio and Rhode Island, have begun efforts to adopt the revisions.