Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2024

The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages. Kroll researchers reported that the ransomware strain outstands for the use of encryption to protect the ransomware binary. Schneider Electric said that other divisions of the company were not impacted by the cyber attack.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The attack impacted the services of Schneider Electric’s Resource Advisor cloud platform causing outages. Cactus uses the Rclone tool for data exfiltration and used a PowerShell script called TotalExec, which was used in the past by BlackBasta ransomware operators, to automate the deployment of the encryption process.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. What I’d originally planned to write about was a topic that directly applies – why retailers of all stripes are not investing in data security. But none of these reasons rose to the top in retail.

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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. Back to basics.

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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. There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

We have 5,000+ customers worldwide, including 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies and major organizations in the Finance, Government, Retail, and Industrial segments. We help our customers secure their business in the age of hybrid cloud and distributed IT and OT infrastructures.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2018

Around the same time, US fashion retailer Forever 21 admitted that hackers had collected customers’ credit card information from its stores’ point of sale terminals over much of 2017, and the information of nearly 1.2 For more information on the Privacy Amendment Act 2017, please visit our dedicated landing page.

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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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eDiscovery Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

He has experience in handling diverse industries, from fast-moving consumer goods to business-to-business hardware retailers. . Many businesses are switching to the cloud for their day-to-day operations, and you should too. Cloud technology allows employees to access files and work platforms from any place in a secure way.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton’s parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the program and allows customers to profit from the scheme — in which the company keeps 15 percent of any currencies mined — is “opt-in,” meaning users have to agree to enable it. Only you have access to the wallet.” ”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Synoptek , a California business that provides cloud hosting and IT management services to more than a thousand customer nationwide, suffered a ransomware attack this week that has disrupted operations for many of its clients, according to sources. Irvine, Calif.-based ” Synoptek has not yet responded to multiple requests for comment.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

So, your first priority is identifying all systems where your data “lives” including local storage like CIFS file shares and SharePoint, public cloud storage systems like Dropbox and OneDrive , and endpoint devices. Data encryption also allows your employees to continue sharing files through familiar systems like email.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

Although some bad bot use cases, such as content scraping and account takeover, are prevalent across different sectors, others, like scalping, usually impact specific industries like online retail and entertainment (ticketing). Certain industries, such as airlines, have unique use cases, such as 'seat spinning' attacks.

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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 app heavily encrypts all user financial data. Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes. Cybercriminals can sneak around the network undetected.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2021

A new supply chain attack made the headlines, on Friday the REvil ransomware gang hit the Kaseya cloud-based MSP platform impacting MSPs and their customers. “We are tracking ~30 MSPs across the US, AUS, EU, and LATAM where Kaseya VSA was used to encrypt well over 1,000 businesses and are working in collaboration with many of them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Despite the rising threat landscape and the fact that financial services companies often have a highly distributed infrastructure consisting of retail stores, innumerable IoT devices, and hybrid workforces, they have been slow to embrace a Zero Trust strategy. Data security challenges. Moving ahead.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. Secure data storage is closely related to encryption and key management. The Clock is Ticking for PCI DSS 4.0 Requirements 3.4.1

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Are your AI plans supported by an encryption strategy? The firm’s AI team says the software contains encryption. However, in this scenario where are the encryption keys? It’s important to understand that encryption will affect data in other related applications and processes as well. cloud provider?

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Info Source

JANUARY 31, 2019

an industry leader in enterprise content capture and data discovery solutions, today announced the launch of its Ephesoft Cloud HyperExtender, the industry’s first hybrid solution that easily transitions the most resource-intensive processes into the cloud for peak performance, scalability and minimized upfront investment.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital transformation inherently drives organizations into a data driven world – and each technology used for digital transformation (cloud, big data, IoT, blockchain, mobile payments and more) requires its own unique approach to protecting data. Cloud – now universally used (100% of our sample). Encrypt the data.

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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. Asymmetric encryption may require too much processing power for certain devices, making symmetric keys the only option. Security isn’t static. IoT Operations.

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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

JULY 15, 2021

Yes, and Ellen uses the example of a retail grocery store to effectively demonstrate the point. Along with that, strong encryption, certificate-based authentication, or the ability to layer an organization's certificate onto a device will go a long way towards creating a more secure IoT environment. Encryption Key Management.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Application modernization is the process of updating legacy applications leveraging modern technologies, enhancing performance and making it adaptable to evolving business speeds by infusing cloud native principles like DevOps, Infrastructure-as-code (IAC) and so on.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States in fifty states. 2/2) Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details which are encrypted and tokenized. Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details, which are encrypted and tokenized.”

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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. As I wrote about earlier this year , almost all enterprises are now storing sensitive data in digitally transformative environments, but only 30% are encrypting it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2021

A bold move by the retail giant which aims to offer the complete shopping journey for customers by changing how identification at check-in can substitute authentication at check-out for payment. The financial sector has long embraced innovation in tandem with the security industry and more recently, the retail industry.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Although the news headlines are flooded with incidents affecting areas from critical infrastructure and healthcare to retail and education, we have a great opportunity to address this challenge. Protect and control sensitive data at rest and in transit through encryption and tokenization. This optimism is not without any foundation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

The 57 percent rate statistic is the highest of all verticals we measured in this year’s report (others include the healthcare industry, the retail industry, and the financial services industry) or any region surveyed. I think it’s worth further expanding on our cloud technology findings. What are the challenges involved?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email server GravityRAT returns disguised as an end-to-end encrypted chat app Intel and AMD address high severity vulnerabilities in products and drivers New evolving Abcbot DDoS botnet targets Linux systems Retail giant Costco discloses data breach, payment card data exposed (..)

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IT Governance

MARCH 22, 2018

Such machine learning has been adopted in industries such as motoring, healthcare and retail. The 2018 Cisco Annual Cybersecurity Report expects organisations to increase their use of encryption. It will no doubt progress to many more, so what might this mean for cyber security?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

This year is expected to see similarly high numbers which is paralleled by increasing retailer anxiety about the state of their cybersecurity. In fact, according to our recent survey of retailers , 88% feel vulnerable to data threats. Almost 1 million visited physical stores.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 24, 2021

The retail sector, especially, is a lucrative target for credential stuffing attacks , resulting in billions lost every year. The authentication response is encrypted, protecting from phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks, while the biometrics are only stored and processed on the user’s device. Encryption Key Management.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 4, 2024

The popularity of private cloud is growing, primarily driven by the need for greater data security. Across industries like education, retail and government, organizations are choosing private cloud settings to conduct business use cases involving workloads with sensitive information and to comply with data privacy and compliance needs.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 29, 2023

A retail company experiences a sudden surge in online sales due to a viral social media campaign. Cloud-based solutions Cloud computing offers scalability, flexibility, and accessibility, making it an ideal choice for integrated business planning.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

It grew steadily into a supplier of cloud-enabled security and productivity services, and today has some 250 employees servicing 60,000 SMBs worldwide. Last February, Dallas-based email encryption vendor Zix Corp. Growing reliance on cloud-based services, and third-party collaborations is only making it easier for threat actors.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s hard to imagine a business world without cloud computing. Determining the best cloud computing architecture for enterprise business is critical for overall success. That’s why it is essential to compare the different functionalities of private cloud versus public cloud versus hybrid cloud.

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