eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It’s a tough time to be a retailer. Massive point-of-sale (POS) breaches continue to make headlines on a regular basis, and they can have a significant impact on consumers’ trust in a company and its brand. Multi-factor authentication is also required for remote access. …and a fourth step: employee training.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

CyberNews researchers reported that Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Millions of sensitive documents, from sales to system information, were accessible. Original post @ [link].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

In the latest episode of Thales Security Sessions podcast , I was asked by Neira Jones to join Simon Keates, Head of Strategy and Payment Security at Thales and share my thoughts about the major security and organizational challenges retailers and other financial services organizations are facing. Pandemic has changed us all.

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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. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). Fraud and scams move to the web.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 7% job rise in the retail industry. How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 05:36.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. The four major U.S.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2019

Some of the flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary code, modify passwords, and change system settings, Sierra Wireless AirLink gateways and routers are widely used in enterprise environments to connect industrial equipment, smart devices, sensors, point-of-sale (PoS) systems, and Industrial Control systems (ICSs).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Applicable Metrics Aruba ClearPass is deployed in high-volume authentication environments (e.g. 10+ million authentications a day) as well as distributed environments requiring local authentication survivability across multiple geographies (e.g. 30 points of presence).

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2022

Researchers spotted 5 malicious Google Chrome extensions used to track users’ browsing activity and profit of retail affiliate programs. Customers should take extra steps to verify the authenticity if the extension is requesting permissions that enable it to run on every website you visit such as the one detailed in this blog?.”

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

According to Adobe Analytics’ recent holiday forecast , online sales are projected to surge 33% year over year to a record $189 billion as “Cyber-week turns to Cyber-months” amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Shop at reputable and recognizable retailers. Enable two-factor authentication. Consider alternate payment methods.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

The fastest growing need stems from edge computing for the Internet of Things (IoT) such as fitness bands, self-driving cars, and retail point-of-sale (POS) registers. Instead, data now processes within branch offices, retail locations, factories, and a host of IoT devices.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2021

The Resecurity® HUNTER unit has identified a new tool available for sale in the Dark Web called MASQ , enabling bad actors to emulate device fingerprints thus allowing them to bypass fraud protection controls, including authentication mechanisms.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

ZDnet confirmed the authenticity for some of the data available for sale. Data collected by info-stealers are available for sale in the underground, threat actors use to buy and parse them searching for sensitive data such as account credentials. ” reported ZDNet.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 7, 2021

It’s then offered for sale in private groups and leveraged by the buyer. Consider for a moment the OWASP Top 10 and the OWASP API Top 10 ; both talk about broken authentication mechanisms, due to poor implementation and injection flaws. Usually the path looks like this: •Someone compromises the account (ATO). SQLi for example.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Pre-Covid online shopping was already expected to continue its increase in 2020, but with more customers avoiding the typical Black Friday crowds, this holiday season is set to break online sales records. A recent survey , commissioned by Cyberscout and conducted online by The Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 25, 2019

With an estimated $500 billion retail market spend per year, what’s next for the payments industry as a whole. Consumers today live in the world of Amazon and online shopping and the need for effortless speed is ever-growing thanks to the retail giant. The answer is frictionless payments. Enter payShield 10k.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

We’re now seeing big data play an increasing role in how retail sales and payments are being tailored to individual consumer’s preferences, and providers are adopting and integrating smarter, more efficient ways of completing the path-to-purchase. Three-Domain Secure (3DS) 2.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 16, 2019

This week marks the return of Amazon Prime Day – Amazon’s seasonal retail event which has fast become a masterclass in driving demand and growth through great customer experience. In fact, last year’s event was touted as ‘the biggest shopping event in history’ , with over 100 million products sold.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Blockchain technologies can increase transparency and traceability in the supply chain, helping to prevent fraud and ensure product authenticity. Big data and predictive analytics are increasingly being used to improve forecasting accuracy, allowing businesses to respond more effectively to changes in customer needs.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2021

CounterACT plays well in regulated environments such as defense, finance, healthcare and retail. ClearPass is especially suited for high-volume authentication environments, offering more than 10 million authentications a day, as well as distributed environments requiring local authentication survivability across multiple geographies.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 24, 2017

On July 21, 2017, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill that places new restrictions on the collection and use of personal information by retail establishments for certain purposes. In addition, the law limits the information which retail establishments may collect from the scanned identification cards.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Significant changes to authentication models may be required to alter the growth trajectory of these attacks.” The attacks targeted a range of sectors, from media and entertainment to retail and gaming. Yet another, Sentry MBA, is designed to defeat Captcha challenges, as well as get around two-factor authentication.

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Ascent Innovations

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Retail & POS. Office 365 – Active Directory & Authentication. RFQ (request for quotation). Purchase Requisition. Public Sector. Azure DevOps. Task Recorder. Automated Testing Suite. Global Address Book. Office 365 Add-in. Vendor Collaboration Portal. Product Catalogs. Trade Allowance. Integrated Business Operations.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. That story about the Flashback author was possible because a source had obtained a Web browser authentication cookie for a founding member of a Russian cybercrime forum called BlackSEO.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

Endpoints such as POS (point of sale) machines or the cardholder’s own browsers are the most likely targets, via card-sniffing scripts loaded into the browser through a mix of direct or third-party hosted scripts. The retail and hospitality industries will continue to have their POS equipment targeted. Payment card thefts will rise.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. ” The CCPA empowers Californians to prevent the sale of their data and have it deleted at their request, among other rights. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends.

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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. A report commissioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reveals that most big U.S.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

VISA is warning of ongoing targeted cyber attacks conducted by crooks on point-of-sale (POS) systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants. According to a security alert published by VISA, the PoS systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants are under attack. EMV Chip, Pointto -Point Encryption, Tokenization, etc.)

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Notices must be available in the languages in which the business in its ordinary course provides contracts, disclaimers, sale announcements, and other information to consumers. Other items to note: When a consumer has a password-protected account with the business, traditional authentication practices (e.g., 99.324(a)).

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 25, 2018

Especially for smaller merchants, the ability to use a mobile point-of-sale solution offers flexibility, efficiency, and convenience—all enhancing the customer experience. Retailers were presented with two ways to implement the new EMV standard: chip-and-PIN and chip-and-signature. EMV is an acronym for EuroPay, MasterCard, and Visa.)

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Rocket Software

APRIL 22, 2020

One of the ways to ensure the correct person is accessing the network is to deploy the IBM Z Multi-Factor Authentication product. It will use something you know, something you have, and something you are to authenticate the user. You also want to ensure that all network connections are encrypted. Monitoring and automating systems.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 20, 2024

Reduces Internal Use Labor Costs DRM can apply to internal digital resources to help marketing, sales, legal, and other teams understand where and when digital resources may be safely used. Offline verification: Eliminates DRM server requirements in favor of authentication and validation within the DRM encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Although beyond the scope of the network, effective network security relies upon the effective authentication of the user elsewhere in the security stack. API calls on related applications (shopping carts, databases, etc.)

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cryptoassets are not documents of title, documentary intangibles or negotiable instruments, nor are they instruments under the UK Bills of Exchange Act nor goods under the UK Sale of Goods Act.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cryptoassets are not documents of title, documentary intangibles or negotiable instruments, nor are they instruments under the UK Bills of Exchange Act nor goods under the UK Sale of Goods Act.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Imagine you’re a retailer with 50 store locations. If your internal point-of-sale system goes down, you’re no longer able to complete in-store transactions until the server outage is fixed. And network users don’t just need to be authorized — they need to be authenticated, too.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Cross-platform support and management capabilities in a single pane of glass, including rugged device types and use cases, point of sale (POS), augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets, mobile printers, peripherals, kiosks, and digital signage. Key Differentiators. Key Differentiators.

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