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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For example, compromised card details are used to make unauthorized purchases online and personal details are used to take over an account or apply for a credit card in someone else’s name. Security researchers often use the term “magecart” to refer to different groups of cybercriminals that perform various types of skimming attacks.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

A prime example is the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) cybersecurity frameworks , a comprehensive cyber hygiene roadmap applicable to businesses of all sizes and in all industries The trouble is the NIST guidelines are voluntary. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 million from U.S.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

BK: Right, the Trusted Foundry program I guess is a good example. BK: But certainly there are some areas of computer hardware and network design where you absolutely must have far greater integrity assurance? BK: Can you give some examples? TS: Exactly. That was an attempt to help support a U.S.-based

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Podcast Episode 119: EFF on Expanding Researchers Rights and AT&T talks IoT Security Fails

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast, #119: Electronic Frontier Foundation General Counsel Kurt Opsahl joins us to talk about the Coders’ Rights Project. Also: we speak with Senthil Ramakrishnan, a lead member of AT&T’s IoT Security group about that company’s plans to work with Ericsson to certify the security of IoT devices.

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Is Emotet gang targeting companies with external SOC?

Security Affairs

The group behind Emotet malware is getting smarter and smarter in the way the y deliver such a Malware. While the infection schema looks alike from years; the way the group tries to infect victims improves from day to day. AV and plenty static traffic signatures confirm we are facing a new encrypted version of Emotet trojan.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.