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Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing

Krebs on Security

banks took years to replace their customer card stocks with chip-enabled cards, and countless retailers dragged their feet in updating their payment terminals to accept chip-based cards. A copy of the NYU research paper is available here (PDF). merchants to continue allowing customers to swipe the stripe instead of dip the chip.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

million records from World-Check, a screening database used to screen potential customers for links to illegal activity and government sanctions. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Criminal hackers threaten to leak World-Check screening database A criminal group known as GhostR claims to have stolen 5.3

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Internet As A Pen Test

ForAllSecure

You fill out a one page piece of paper and you get cyber insurance. So maybe the government steps in and makes it easier for that organization to get insurance? And that's extremely rife with conflict as well because if I as the government come up similar to FEMA or some other organization like that, we're putting that in plain sight.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Going Passwordless

ForAllSecure

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. Vamosi: So these scraps of paper or digital records, they combine to somehow prove you are who you say you are. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential. Lewis: Good. Other: Wait.