Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The increasing trend of using mobile payments for in-store purchases (especially during the pandemic) is leading criminals to increasingly focus their efforts on defrauding people through online fraud and scams. This largely follows the trend in the industry of moving transactions primarily to a more web-focused infrastructure.

Security 144

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Following the technology history theme of some of my recent posts ( here and over on CMSWire ), I decided to look back at the history of email to see how strong its claim to the electronic communication 'crown' really is. In 1990, Brownell Chalstrom wrote in CIO magazine that: "electronic mail has taken a while to become indispensable.

Computer and Electronics 91

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Mobile network database breach exposes 750 million Indians’ personal data The Indian security company CloudSEK claims to have found the personal data of 750 million Indians for sale on an “underground forum”. Computer SPRL Source (New) IT services Belgium Yes 1,000,000 AerCap Source (New) Transport Ireland Yes 1 TB MBC Law Professional Corp.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Data scraping site taken offline after billions of Discord users’ messages offered for sale A data scraping website called Spy.pet has been taken offline after harvesting more than 4 billion messages made by almost 630 million Discord users and offering them for sale.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94