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Black Friday and Cyber Weekend: Navigating the Tumultuous Waters of Retail Cybersecurity

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Black Friday and Cyber Weekend: Navigating the Tumultuous Waters of Retail Cybersecurity sparsh Tue, 11/21/2023 - 05:01 As global consumers gear up for the much-anticipated shopping bonanza that is Black Friday and Cyber Weekend, retailers brace themselves for the frenzied onslaught of shoppers and the deluge of cyber threats lurking in the shadows.

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MY TAKE: Agile cryptography is coming, now that ‘attribute-based encryption’ is ready for prime time

The Last Watchdog

Encryption agility is going to be essential as we move forward with digital transformation. All of the technical innovation cybersecurity vendors are churning out to deal with ever-expanding cyber risks, at the end of the day, come down to protecting encrypted data. Refer: The vital role of basic research.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. On the other hand, the present value of NIST's costs from today's perspective is $127 million. IRR and investing proceeds at the social rate of return is 53.6%.

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. There are two ways to protect customers’ PAN, encryption and tokenization.

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GUEST ESSAY: 3 key ingredients to stress-free compliance with data handling regulations

The Last Watchdog

Encryption provides an extra layer of security and control over your data, as well as the systems holding and transmitting your data. This enables regulatory compliance with HIPPA for healthcare organizations, PCI DSS for retailers, and other regulations. Layer defenses.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Malware-based anonymity networks are a major source of unwanted and malicious web traffic directed at online retailers, Internet service providers (ISPs), social networks, email providers and financial institutions. That same Google Analytics code is also now present on the homepages of wiremo[.]co com, such as abuseipdb[.]com

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Report: Threat of Emotet and Ryuk

Security Affairs

Analyzing the general distribution of the compromised domains, grouped by category, it is possible to verify that the most affected were as follows: professional/companies (20.2%), personal (13.5%), retail (12.7%) and industry (11.9%). This ransomware is difficult to stop and does not have known execution flaws at the present time. “We