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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

“There is a lot of speculation about how good they are, tactics et cetera, but I think it’s more than that,” said the CXO, who spoke about the incident on condition of anonymity. “They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. .

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. Erin: How do you see cyberwarfare between nation-states shaping up in the future? Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.)

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CNIL Releases Guidance on Teleworking

Hunton Privacy

On April 1, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) released guidance for employers on how to implement teleworking (the “Guidance”) as well as best practices for their employees in this context (the “Best Practices”). Guidance for Employers. Sufficiently securing their own device if they do not have a company-owned device.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Professional services USA Yes 11,556 Poder Judicial de Santa Cruz Source (New) Legal Argentina Yes 8,732 J.D. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Given that we can’t know the exact numbers, as it depends on the types of records included (e.g.

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NEW TECH: ‘Passwordless authentication’ takes us closer to eliminating passwords as the weak link

The Last Watchdog

Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services. If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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The race for corporate banks to catch up with their retail peers

CGI

Over the last few years, there has been a big drive to digitize the retail bank; and, of course, across Europe, all banks have had to make their data available to third parties that offer bank consumer services in response to PSD2 and open banking. It digs deep into offered services, satisfaction levels and future trends.

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From channel to customer: How an omni-channel experience is the key to the retail industry’s success

CGI

From channel to customer: How an omni-channel experience is the key to the retail industry’s success. In this year’s CGI Client Global Insights , 87% of retail and consumer services executives we interviewed say they continue to invest in improving the customer experience, making it their number one business and IT priority.

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