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Retail giant Woolworths discloses data breach of MyDeal online marketplace

Security Affairs

Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Bad news for the customers of the MyDeal online marketplace, the Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 million MyDeal customers. million of them. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Hunton Publishes 2020 Retail Industry Year in Review

Hunton Privacy

This is an extraordinary and unprecedented time for the retail industry. Hunton Andrews Kurth’s 2020 Retail Industry Year in Review provides an in-depth analysis of the issues and challenges that retailers faced in the past year, and a look ahead at what they can expect in 2021. Read the full publication.

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Multiple Retailers Sued Under CCPA for Sharing Data Used to Identify Fraudulent Returns

Hunton Privacy

Earlier this year, The Retail Equation, a loss prevention service provider, and Sephora were hit with a class action lawsuit in which the plaintiff claimed Sephora improperly shared consumer data with The Retail Equation without consumers’ knowledge or consent. 5:20-cv-02155-LHK, is due on September 14, 2020. Code § 1798.150).

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11 cyber security predictions for 2020

IT Governance

Almost everyone wants to know what the future has in store – particularly when it comes to cyber security. With that in mind, Geraint Williams, IT Governance’s chief information security officer, discusses his cyber security predictions in the upcoming year. Our predictions. Low-level attacks aren’t going anywhere.

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Security in 2020: Revisited

Schneier on Security

Ten years ago, I wrote an essay : "Security in 2020." Well, it's finally 2020. Here's what I said back then: There's really no such thing as security in the abstract. Security can only be defined in relation to something else. You're secure from something or against something. I think I did pretty well.

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How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? Our data shows us that in the first quarter of 2020, there was a larger shift to digital payment forms in 10 weeks than we had seen in the preceding five years. The biggest challenge for both retailers and financial organizations was the rapidness of that change.

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020.

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