IT Governance

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Welcome to the second part of our round-up of 2019’s information security stories. The NHS was criticised for signing a deal with Amazon that allowed patients to access their health information via its Alexa voice assistant – potentially granting the online retail giant access to vast amounts of sensitive personal data.

Data breaches 78

Data breaches Personal data GDPR Ransomware 78

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 11, 2013

The court ruled that (1) a ZIP code constitutes personal identification information under the Massachusetts law; (2) a plaintiff may bring an action for a violation of the Massachusetts law absent identity fraud; and (3) the term “credit card transaction form” refers equally to electronic and paper transaction forms. Michaels Stores, Inc. ,

Retail 40

Retail Sales Privacy Paper 40

ChiefTech

APRIL 22, 2013

Writing in ITNews, technology journalist Liz Tay compares the IT strategies of Australia''s major banks and supermarkets - she see parallels with a University of Melbourne paper that categorised CIOs as either "trusted senior executive leader" (Commonwealth Bank, Woolworths) or "chief technology mechanic” (Westpac, Coles).

IT 43

IT Retail Marketing Sales 43

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Easily the most sophisticated skimming devices made for hacking terminals at retail self-checkout lanes are a new breed of PIN pad overlay combined with a flexible, paper-thin device that fits inside the terminal’s chip reader slot. What enables these skimmers to be so slim? “shimmer”).

Retail 311

Retail Paper Sales Security 311

Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The rules also define “Third-party identity verification service” as “a security process offered by an independent third-party who verifies the identity of the consumer making a request to the business.” Article 4 of the proposed rules explicitly allows the business to use a third-party service to verify the consumer’s identity. 999.306(c)).

Sales 40

Sales Retail Privacy Access 40

Data Protection Report

JANUARY 25, 2018

On January 24, 2018, the governing body for credit and debit cards, known as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council, announced a new set of security requirements designed to address an increasingly popular way that merchants offer to consumers to pay for purchases: smartphones and tablets.

Security 40

Security Retail Customer Experience Sales 40

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. However, in a classic failure of operational security, many of these employees had their MegaPlan account messages automatically forwarded to their real ChronoPay email accounts.

Computer and Electronics 225

Computer and Electronics Marketing Sales Healthcare 225

Info Source

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, organisations in the Legal and Retail sector may see impressive ROIs. Sales into the Banking vertical account for over two thirds of the Finance sector and presents by far the largest single largest industry. The Healthcare segment is the third largest sector based on demand for Capture & IDP Solution sales in 2022.

Marketing 40

Marketing Customer Experience Energy and Utilities Digital transformation 40

IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Data scraping site taken offline after billions of Discord users’ messages offered for sale A data scraping website called Spy.pet has been taken offline after harvesting more than 4 billion messages made by almost 630 million Discord users and offering them for sale.

Data Privacy 94

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94