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How Cyber Sleuths Cracked an ATM Shimmer Gang

Krebs on Security

In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new “shimming” devices made to steal data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many of these shimmers, but for years couldn’t decrypt the data on the devices.

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Cell phones, robocalls, and text messages – two pronouncements

Data Protection Report

In 2015, Congress amended the law as part of that year’s budget bill. Constitution, using the 2015 amendment as an example of a unconstitutional restriction of content-based speech. Six Justices agreed that the 2015 debt-collecting amendment was a content-based restriction: “That is about as content-based as it gets.

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Trend Micro rogue employee sold customer data to tech support scammers

Security Affairs

TrendMicro investigated the calls and discovered that the attacks were not causal, instead, scammers were leveraging user data, a circumstance that suggested the involvement of insiders. and government customers that our investigations have shown no indication that the criminal has accessed any enterprise customer data. .

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Are you critical? Amendments to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act (2018) dramatically expand its scope and impact across Australian industry

Data Protection Report

An added dimension is that several of the new asset classes require further definition via the creation of sector-specific rules by the Minister for Home Affairs that will define the operational thresholds to classify critical infrastructure assets. Cybersecurity reporting requirements. Foreign Investment. Next Steps.

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CVE-2019-13720 flaw in Chrome exploited in Operation WizardOpium attacks

Security Affairs

Reported by banananapenguin on 2019-10-12[$TBD][ 1019226 ] High CVE-2019-13720: Use-after-free in audio. So far, we have been unable to establish a definitive link with any known threat actors. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. reads the advisory published by Google.

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Weekly podcast: A recap of the top stories of 2017 and a look ahead to 2018

IT Governance

This week, we look back at the big news from last year, and consider what the next 12 months have in store. As it’s the first one, let’s have a brief recap of some of last year’s biggest stories, and then look ahead to what we can expect from the next 12 months. Hello and welcome to the first IT Governance podcast of 2018.

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Open Banking: going beyond compliance

CGI

Wed, 12/12/2018 - 02:22. Open Banking basically establishes a standard for data exchange, increasing interoperability and eliminating inefficiencies at industry and bank level. Open Banking: going beyond compliance. This will certainly make your organisation compliant but not necessarily competitive.