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Why Paper Receipts are Money at the Drive-Thru

Krebs on Security

The idea is to force employees to finalize all sales and create a transaction that gets logged by the company’s systems. While it may not be obvious, such policies are meant to deter employee theft.

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Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank

Krebs on Security

based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards. But a recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based A chip-based credit card. Image: Wikipedia. Source: RCMP.

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Transacting in Person with Strangers from the Internet

Krebs on Security

states now have designated safe trading stations — mostly at local police departments — which ensure that all transactions are handled in plain view of both the authorities and security cameras. Photocopy the license or identification paper, or use your phone to photograph it. Nearly all U.S.

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Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security

Krebs on Security

11, 2019, two security experts at a company that had been hired by the state of Iowa to test the physical and network security of its judicial system were arrested while probing the security of an Iowa county courthouse, jailed in orange jumpsuits, charged with burglary, and held on $100,000 bail. On Thursday Jan.

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.". Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late.

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Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing

Krebs on Security

McCoy and fellow NYU researchers found BriansClub earned close to $104 million in gross revenue from 2015 to early 2019, and listed over 19 million unique card numbers for sale. Ditto for the relatively few corporate and business cards for sale. Although Visa cards made up more than half of accounts put up for sale (12.1

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Deciding Which Paper Files to Keep, Which to Scan, Which to Shred

Armstrong Archives

If you’re in the business of sorting through piles of paper files, you may wonder how to distinguish between files you should keep, files you should scan, and files you should shred. However, once you know how to dispose or store certain files, sorting through paper records will become much easier. Bills of sale.

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