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Top 3 Black Friday 2020 scams to avoid

IT Governance

But in the US, Black Friday refers to the discounts that retailers offer the day after Thanksgiving – and thanks to the rise in online shopping (which will be even more prominent this year with COVID-19), it has become a global custom. You definitely shouldn’t buy the TV online there and then. What do you do?

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Ease of Use Rules! Trends in the Distributed Scanning Hardware Space

Info Source

So COVID boosted sales for the lower volume document scanners and as office work sort of looks to be officially becoming a hybrid environment, do you think that market will continue to see a steady growth? And so definitely we’ll see more of that. Watch the interview below or skip down and read a lightly edited transcript.

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SEC Charges Shopin Founder with fraud over unregistered $42M ICO

Security Affairs

Eran Eyal, the founder of UnitedData , trading as Shopin , is accused of having operated an unregistered ICO without any project and documentation. The problem is that SEC believes that Shopin never created a functional platform. ” continues the SEC’s compliant. Berger, Director of the SEC’s New York Regional Office.

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2022 National Meeting

Data Matters

The Statutory Accounting Principles (E) Working Group (SAP Working Group) continued its ongoing work on a principle-based bond definition, including revisions to the following Statements of Statutory Accounting Principles (SSAPs): SSAP No. NAIC Adopts Revised Definition of “Asset” But Re-Exposes Revisions to Definition of “Liability”.

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Top 3 Black Friday scams to avoid in 2021

IT Governance

Alternatively, you’ll download a Word document that asks you to ‘Enable Content’, which will unleash malware on your systems. Enabling macros is almost always a huge no-no, and Word may well warn you about the dangers of doing this if you try to give the document permission. You definitely shouldn’t buy the TV online there and then.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks Quarterly Review: Q2 2022

IT Governance

As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information. It was followed by the public sector (47 incidents), and between them they account for almost half of all incidents that we documented. How many records have been compromised?

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Top 3 Black Friday 2019 scams to avoid

IT Governance

Besides the traumatic experience for some retail employees and those injured in shop-floor brawls, Black Friday is also a time in which many of us are caught out by scams, with cyber criminals taking advantage of customers desperate for a bargain. Alternatively, you’ll download a Word document that asks you to ‘Enable Content’ to view.