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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Future of Payments Security. The increasing trend of using mobile payments for in-store purchases (especially during the pandemic) is leading criminals to increasingly focus their efforts on defrauding people through online fraud and scams. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. Tue, 01/26/2021 - 09:17.

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News Alert: W3C advances technology to streamline payment authentication

The Last Watchdog

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Publication of Secure Payment Confirmation as a Candidate Recommendation indicates that the feature set is stable and has received wide review.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security launches platform to shield apps, APIs from malicious botnets

The Last Watchdog

And innovation is percolating among newer entrants, like PerimeterX, Shape Security and Signal Sciences. This week a new entrant in this field, Cequence Security , formally launched what it describes as a “game-changing” application security platform. Shifting security challenge.

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CGI-sponsored research covers key trends in adopting instant payments

CGI

CGI-sponsored research covers key trends in adopting instant payments. Every year at CGI, we conduct research on the services banks offer their customers - whether consumers or corporates - comparing the customer’s perspective with that of the bank’s. harini.kottees…. Mon, 06/19/2017 - 02:00. How big of a challenge is cybersecurity?

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Risk Management under the DORA Regulation

IT Governance

The financial sector is quite heavily regulated, and involves a lot of confidential data. You’d therefore expect that the sector fares better at data security than your average organisation. In fact, in 2020–2022, the financial sector was the second-most attacked sector, topped only by the retail and manufacturing sector.

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4 Industries That Have to Fight the Hardest Against Cyberattacks

Security Affairs

Society’s dependence on internet-based technologies means security professionals must defend against cyberattacks as well as more traditional threats, such as robbers or disgruntled employees. More than 83 percent of organizations responding to a recent survey reported making new or improved organizational security enhancements.

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TA505 Group adds new ServHelper Backdoor and FlawedGrace RAT to its arsenal

Security Affairs

Security researchers at Proofpoint researchers discovered two strains of malware tracked as ServHelper and FlawedGrace distributed through phishing campaigns by the TA505 crime gang. “In November 2018, TA505 , a prolific actor that has been at the forefront of this trend, began distributing a new backdoor we named “ServHelper”.

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