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

JULY 23, 2018

The basic model featured here retails for $20. Security Keys are inexpensive USB-based devices that offer an alternative approach to two-factor authentication (2FA), which requires the user to log in to a Web site using something they know (the password) and something they have (e.g., A YubiKey Security Key made by Yubico.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2022

.” The CPU will address critical vulnerabilities in Oracle Essbase, Graph Server and Client, Secure Backup, Communications Applications, Communications, Construction and Engineering, Enterprise Manager, Financial Services Applications, Fusion Middleware, Insurance Applications, PeopleSoft, Support Tools, and Utilities Applications.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Tech advances are accelerating the use of facial recognition as a reliable and ubiquitous mass surveillance tool, privacy advocates warn. A string of advances in biometric authentication systems has brought facial recognition systems, in particular, to the brink of wide commercial use. Related: Drivers behind facial recognition boom.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. The malicious updates employed in the Zerologon attacks are able to bypass the user account control (UAC) security feature in Windows and abuse the Windows Script Host tool (wscript.exe) to execute malicious scripts.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

. “The cyber criminals typically create fraudulent copies of legitimate cards by sending stolen card data to co-conspirators who imprint the data on reusable magnetic strip cards, such as gift cards purchased at retail stores,” the FBI warned. Monitor for encrypted traffic (SSL or TLS) traveling over non-standard ports.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

This ultimately resulted in the 2020 roll out of DigiCert ONE, a new platform of tools and services aimed at “embedding digital trust across the board within the enterprise and between all parts of the cloud ecosystem,” Chauhan says. Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers. Chloé Messdaghi, VP of Strategy, Point3 Security : As this breach shows us, it’s possible for someone to gain access to an individual’s 2FA, so it’s important to use a verification app, such as Google Authenticator.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. . ” reads the joint report. ” concludes the report.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. Shop at reputable and recognizable retailers.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Hacks QakBot, Quietly Removes Botnet Infections Under Siege: Rapid7-Observed Exploitation of Cisco ASA SSL VPNs Why is.US Being Used to Phish So Many of Us?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2023

“a SQL injection vulnerability has been found in the MOVEit Transfer web application that could allow an un-authenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to MOVEit Transfer’s database.” ” reads the advisory published by the company. The company has yet to determine the number of impacted employees.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Organizations that have existing cloud solutions in place or are looking to implement them should consider these tips and tools to ensure that sensitive applications and data don’t fall into the wrong hands. What authentication methods does the provider support? Read more: Best IAM Tools & Solutions for 2021.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

But with the right tools and priorities, each step in the process can run smoothly. Advanced software tools can automate some parts of forecasting, providing real-time updates and alerts when inventory levels are too high or low.

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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. Example A digital retailer catalogs all the different kinds of customer data it holds, like names, email addresses, and saved payment information. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Cyber criminals in today’s environment have ready access to powerful tools — and innumerable support services — available on the Dark Net to anyone wishing to attempt to plunder businesses. In the not-so-distant past, only elite hackers had access to high-end, cutting-edge hacking tools. Talk more soon.

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IT Governance

JUNE 21, 2023

Some bogus messages might look like security alerts, for instance, whereas others advertise bargain discounts at an online retailer. Use multi-factor authentication In many phishing scams, the attacker’s motive is to capture the victim’s passwords in order to compromise their account.

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Collibra

MAY 6, 2020

But with all this additional time we spend online, have we stopped to think about the security of our devices and the tools we use every day? Even large retailers might employ people in stores to greet you and help you, but at the end of the day, they are a technology company and need the appropriate tools to keep all their data secure.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2020

The retail and hospitality industries will continue to have their POS equipment targeted. However, many enterprise and large organisations and tech-savvy individuals will realise the benefits of multifactor authentication to secure their accounts. Weak passwords will continue to be exploited as attackers monetise credentials.

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IT Governance

APRIL 10, 2019

Strong authentication. The PSD2 toughens the verification system for card-not-present payments, requiring transactions to be confirmed with strong authentication. Although you can use any factor with strong authentication, it generally refers to two knowledge factors, such as our example of a password and secret question.

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Bill Burr (not the comedian) came up with the original National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) publication in 2003, which gave guidance to developers on how to structure identity authentication for users of a system. Like this: TxRecBi#1! Texas Record Blog Is Number One!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Imagine a world where the retail value of your car actually grows over time – that’s now becoming a reality. The same rings true for encryption and authentication. Additionally, many auto manufacturers now have the ability to remotely update software to fix vulnerabilities or even upgrade functionality.

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IT Governance

JUNE 19, 2019

Likewise, a retailer might use personal data collected about an individual to provide targeted ads. Biometric data is usually used to authenticate that someone has appropriate access rights. The GDPR doesn’t specify a process to follow, so this is where our DPIA Tool helps. Processing biometric or genetic data.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This article is going to explore cybersecurity considerations surrounding drone platforms through an initial review of drone market trends, popular drone hacking tools, and general drone hacking techniques that may be used to compromise enterprise drone platforms, including how drone platforms themselves may be used as malicious hacking platforms.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Do you use push-based multi-factor authentication (MFA)? The users were able to impersonate an infinite number of entities (such as banks, retail companies and government institutions) for financial gain and substantial losses to victims. Check them out: "YouTube as a Tool for Social Engineering Reconnaissance": [link].

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 21, 2019

In fact the companies searched by the DPA offer goods and services within the fields of, inter alia, online retail, sports, banking and insurance, media, automotive and electronics as well as home and residential. Very risk-averse companies might consider stop using respective tools at all.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Originally designed as a network access control (NAC) solution, Aruba ClearPass continues to evolve into a portfolio of network security tools. Applicable Metrics Aruba ClearPass is deployed in high-volume authentication environments (e.g. 30 points of presence).

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Many readers were aghast that the IRS would ask people to hand over their biometric and personal data to a private company that begin in 2010 as a way to help veterans, teachers and other public servants qualify for retail discounts. These readers had reasonable questions: Who has (or will have) access to this data? What happens if ID.me

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Think: an online retailer that stores customers’ email addresses to send order updates. Incident response plans should include tools and tactics to recover systems and restore information security. Technical security controls include software, hardware, and other technology tools, like SIEMs and data loss prevention solutions.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

People looking to secure a small office or home office (SOHO) environment do not need the same tools and techniques of a small or medium sized business (SMB), let alone an enterprise with thousands of devices and dozens, if not hundreds of networks. This article will briefly outline the types of security needed to secure a network.

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2022

The group targets entities in Europe and Central America with a surveillance tool dubbed Subzero. The DSIRF website states the provide services “to multinational corporations in the technology, retail, energy and financial sectors ” and that they have “ a set of highly sophisticated techniques in gathering and analyzing information.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Facial recognition software (FRS) is a biometric tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to scan human facial features to produce a code. Also read: Passwordless Authentication 101. Enterprises can also use this facial recognition technology for a more thorough means of authentication.

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