Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As digital transformation takes hold, the retail industry is under siege from cyber criminals and nation states attempting to steal consumers’ personal information, credit card data and banking information. senior retail IT security managers and 96 IT security managers from retailers across the globe.

Retail 66

Retail Data breaches Digital transformation Encryption 66

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

[link] pic.twitter.com/z91nfnGYAQ — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) February 19, 2024 The Cactus ransomware operation has been active since March 2023, Kroll researchers reported that the ransomware strain is notable for the use of encryption to protect the ransomware binary. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

Ransomware 107

Ransomware Digital transformation Encryption Retail 107

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Digital transformation (DX) is fundamentally impacting all aspects of the economy across every industry, and nowhere is this truer than in retail. But DX also introduces the potential to put sensitive customer and corporate data at risk by fundamentally changing where data needs to be protected and how it needs to be secured.

Retail 54

Retail Cloud Encryption Digital transformation 54

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Future of Payments Security. 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. Securing digital transactions.

Security 143

Security Retail Authentication Big data 143

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

Cloud 130

Cloud Security Encryption Risk 130

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2023

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. FiXS, a new ATM malware that is targeting Mexican banks BidenCash leaks 2.1M

Security 89

Security Ransomware Data breaches Retail 89

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. The app heavily encrypts all user financial data. Deploying privacy protections: The app uses encryption to protect data from cybercriminals and other prying eyes.

Data Privacy 87

Data Privacy Privacy GDPR Personal data 87

Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2018

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. A YubiKey Security Key made by Yubico. a mobile device). a mobile device).

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Phishing Security Authentication Passwords 222

IT Governance

MARCH 22, 2018

Cyber security has become a major priority for every organisation. Such machine learning has been adopted in industries such as motoring, healthcare and retail. It will no doubt progress to many more, so what might this mean for cyber security? Ultimately, this would help improve network security defences.

Artificial Intelligence 85

Artificial Intelligence Security Encryption Risk 85

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Contents: Top GRC tools comparison. Top GRC tools comparison.

Compliance 67

Compliance Risk Government Retail 67

Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2021

The investigation is still ongoing, according to security firm Huntress Labs at least 1000 organizations have been impacted, making this incident, one of the largest ransomware attacks in history. “The new Compromise Detection Tool was rolled out last night to almost 900 customers who requested the tool.”

Ransomware 129

Ransomware Retail Sales Encryption 129

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

This year’s report documents these twin drivers, what organizations are doing about the problems and best practice recommendations for how IT security stances should change to meet both needs. A failure to adopt modern data security methods for existing data sets. The failure to adopt modern data security methods.

Digital transformation 96

Digital transformation Blockchain Security Encryption 96

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. Imagine a world where the retail value of your car actually grows over time – that’s now becoming a reality. It’s also enabling manufacturers to respond faster to security vulnerabilities, market demand, and even natural disasters.

IoT 77

IoT Security Manufacturing Encryption 77

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

This ransomware strain emerged in September 2020, but the threat actors behind already managed to lock quite big companies, such as game developers Crytek, booksellers Barnes & Noble, and most recently a retail giant Cencosud from Chile. Same tools and naming convention have been used as well, for example md.exe, rdp.bat, svchost.exe.

Ransomware 121

Ransomware Retail Encryption Manufacturing 121

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command, and international partners released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn that Russia-linked threat actors are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters (EdgeRouters) to evade detection in cyber operations worldwide. ” concludes the report.

Energy and Utilities 101

Energy and Utilities Military Government Phishing 101

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

” reads a security breach notice published by the company on its website. “Market supply is secure. Fuel sales at our retail locations continue unhindered. All payments are secure, whether it is a cash payment, an INA card or a bank card. INA is taking steps to remedy the system’s hassle.”

Ransomware 118

Ransomware Encryption Retail Sales 118

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Security researchers from NCC Group reported an increase in ransomware attacks in November 2021 over the past month, and PYSA (aka Mespinoza) and Lockbit were the most active ransomware gangs. According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware.

Ransomware 102

Ransomware Encryption Government Retail 102

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

But there are a manageable number of precautions you can take to secure customer data that will tick the boxes for many different regulations. Encryption provides an extra layer of security and control over your data, as well as the systems holding and transmitting your data. Layer defenses. Train employees.

Compliance 140

Compliance Encryption GDPR Cloud 140

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The tech titans have swelled into multi-billion dollar behemoths by myopically focusing on delivering targeted online advertising, in support of online retailing. Cybercriminals have begun escalating their efforts to bend the legitimate online advertising and retailing fulfillment ecosystem to their whims. It’s only lightly monitored.

Retail 138

Retail Digital transformation Phishing Data collection 138

Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2023

The company is investigating the security breach and said that at this time the attack had no impact to its core IT systems. “We One of Zellis’s customers, the British health and beauty retailer and pharmacy chain Boots also confirmed to have been impacted by the attack. ALL MEDIA SPEAKING ABOUT THIS ARE DO WHAT ALWAYS THEY DO.

Ransomware 94

Ransomware Data breaches Retail Government 94

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 27, 2019

-based Synoptek is a managed service provider that maintains a variety of cloud-based services for more than 1,100 customers across a broad spectrum of industries , including state and local governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and software. A now-deleted Tweet from Synoptek on Dec.

Ransomware 180

Ransomware IT Phishing Financial Services 180

Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals the ability to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which impersonate major online banking, e-commerce, popular retailers, and online-services to steal customer data. Cybercriminals are forever leveraging advanced tools and tactics to attack consumers globally.

Phishing 78

Phishing Retail Financial Services Data breaches 78

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. Browse online using secure networks. Do your research.

Retail 97

Retail e-Delivery Passwords Phishing 97

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2018

“Historic compromises have included small-to-medium size financial institutions, likely due to less robust implementation of cyber security controls, budgets, or third-party vendor vulnerabilities,” the alert continues. Monitor for encrypted traffic (SSL or TLS) traveling over non-standard ports.

Phishing 214

Phishing Authentication Retail Encryption 214

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Nodersok abuse of legitimate tools also called living-off-the-land binaries ( LOLBins ). Researchers observed threat actors dropping two legitimate tools onto the infected machines, namely Node.exe, the Windows implementation of the popular Node. based payload, and a bunch of encrypted files. ” Microsoft concludes.

e-Delivery 82

e-Delivery Retail Libraries Education 82

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

Related: Free ‘VRMM’ tool measures third-party exposure Just take a look at Europe’s GDPR , NYDFS’s cybersecurity requirement s or even California’s newly minted Consumer Privacy Act. The founding participants developed assessment regimes and tools, all having to do with measuring and assessing, essentially, third-party risks.

Risk 164

Risk IoT Digital transformation Retail 164

The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

I often see a sizable gap between perceptions and reality among many SMB leaders,” Troy Gill a senior security analyst at AppRiver told me. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill. Last February, Dallas-based email encryption vendor Zix Corp. That need is sizeable. Talk more soon.

Risk 182

Risk Cybersecurity Passwords Ransomware 182

IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 29, 2023

A retail company experiences a sudden surge in online sales due to a viral social media campaign. Advanced analytics and business intelligence tools are utilized to analyze and interpret the data, uncovering insights and trends that drive informed decision-making.

Analytics 85

Analytics Sales Marketing Risk 85

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

The threat group is also known for its recent attack campaign against Bank and Retail business sectors, but the latest evidence indicates a potential expansion of its criminal operation to other industries too. su”, using an SSL encrypted communication, and stores them in “C:UsersPublic” path: “ rtegre.exe ” and “ wprgxyeqd79.exe

IT 69

IT Retail Archiving File names 69

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Legitimate retailers are never going to make you dig for the deals, so they aren’t going to put the good stuff in an attachment. It’s not just attachments from retailers, but also from shipping companies or financial institutions. Do your online shopping at home on a secure network. …and don’t open that attachment.

Retail 95

Retail Passwords Insurance Phishing 95

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Discovery focuses on understanding legacy application, infrastructure, data, interaction between applications, services and data and other aspects like security. Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important.

Cloud 100

Cloud Customer Experience Mining Marketing 100

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Retailers around the world are anticipating less foot traffic in their shops this holiday season, with more than 75% of consumers expected to do most of their shopping online due to the pandemic. Have standard security principles & ensure your employees understand them. Make sure your Wi-Fi networks are secure.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Passwords Retail Access 52

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 22, 2019

“The bad guys are insinuating their malicious code as part of the code that renders on the victim’s device during fulfillment,” says Chris Olson, CEO of the Media Trust, a McLean, VA-based website security vendor. “If For the most part, no one is really thinking about the security of all of these third-party apps. Talk more soon.

Retail 113

Retail Personal data Phishing Encryption 113

IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Many retailers sell signs like this, leaving the purpose blank so that you can fill it in with the appropriate message. That will generally be security personnel and management. This means keeping the footage in a secure location. You might also decide to encrypt digitally recorded CCTV footage to further protect it.

GDPR 110

GDPR Privacy Retail Personal data 110

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Think: an online retailer that stores customers’ email addresses to send order updates. The only processing operations exempt from the GDPR are national security and law enforcement activities and purely personal uses of data. Storage limitation: Organizations should securely dispose of data as soon as its purpose is fulfilled.

GDPR 83

GDPR Compliance Personal data Privacy 83

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range of complexity to fit the wide range of needs. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

Security 109

Security Cloud Encryption Access 109

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Encrypted payment card numbers. Marriott has reported that it became aware of the breach in September this year, when it was alerted by an internal security tool regarding an attempt to access the Starwood database in the US. Affecting 500 million people, the vast hack has exposed a considerable amount of data including: Names.

Encryption 79

Encryption Access Government IT 79