Why Retailers Must Avoid Passwords
HID Global
APRIL 1, 2024
Discover how RFID reader technology revolutionizes retail with secure, passwordless authentication for enhanced efficiency and security. Learn more.
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HID Global
APRIL 1, 2024
Discover how RFID reader technology revolutionizes retail with secure, passwordless authentication for enhanced efficiency and security. Learn more.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
and founded in 1856, privately-held Orvis is the oldest mail-order retailer in the United States. The company has approximately 1,700 employees, 69 retail stores and 10 outlets in the US, and 18 retail stores in the UK. Microsoft Active Directory accounts and passwords. Security cameras. Based in Sunderland, VT.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 14, 2022
million by the New York state attorney general for multiple failings tied to a massive 2018 data breach, including substandard password security as well as failing to alert users or force password resets in a timely manner.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 14, 2022
million by New York state's attorney general for multiple failings tied to a massive 2018 data breach, including substandard password security, as well as failing to alert users or force password resets in a timely manner.
Security Affairs
APRIL 15, 2023
The Brazilian retail arm of car manufacturing giant Volvo leaked sensitive files, putting its clientele in the vast South American country in peril. Volvo’s retailer in Brazil, Dimas Volvo, leaked sensitive files through its website. website, belonging to an independent Volvo retailer in the Santa Catarina region of Brazil.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Bad news for the customers of the MyDeal online marketplace, the Australian retail giant Woolworths disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 2.2 Also, no customer account passwords were accessed. million MyDeal customers.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 15, 2023
The Canadian Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the largest beverage alcohol retailer in the country, disclosed Magecart attack. Canadian Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), the largest beverage alcohol retailer in the country, disclosed a Magecart attack on January 10, 2023. Pierluigi Paganini.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Retail giant Home Depot has agreed to a $17.5 The US largest home improvement retailer giant Home Depot agrees to $17.5 According to the US retailer the payment card information of approximately 40 million Home Depot consumers nationwide. Online customers were not impacted by the security breach. ” . .
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 11, 2019
23 Million Victims Across US, UK, EU and Australia Receive Breach Notifications Personalized product retailer CafePress has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that it failed to notify 23 million customers about a data breach in a timely manner or follow security best practices.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Decathlon, the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, has suffered a massive data breach, affecting 123 million customer and employee records. Cyber security researchers at vpnMentor found a leaky database on a publicly accessible Elasticsearch server. Customers’ email addresses and login information were also compromised.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JANUARY 10, 2022
How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? The biggest challenge for both retailers and financial organizations was the rapidness of that change. Without it, it’s close to impossible for an organization to act securely and in accordance with rules and regulations. Advice for secure digital payments.
Security Affairs
APRIL 23, 2019
Bad news for fitness and bodybuilding passionates, the popular online retailer Bodybuilding.com announced that hackers have broken into its systems. The popular online retailer website Bodybuilding.com announced last week that hackers have broken into its systems. ” reads the announcement published on the website.
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).
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 10, 2022
Indeed, security-minded readers have often alerted KrebsOnSecurity about spam to specific aliases that suggested a breach at some website, and usually they were right, even if the company that got hacked didn’t realize it at the time. ” HaveIBeenPwned’s Hunt arrived at the conclusion that aliases account for about.03
Security Affairs
JANUARY 7, 2024
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! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 11, 2020
On August 5, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it has levied a fine of €250,000 on French online shoe retailer, Spartoo, for various infringements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The CNIL found that the company should have required users to use more robust passwords.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
NOVEMBER 20, 2022
How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 7% job rise in the retail industry. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 05:36.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 18, 2023
In January 2023, the Faceless service website said it was willing to pay for information about previously undocumented security vulnerabilities in IoT devices. Recently, Faceless has shown ambitions beyond just selling access to poorly-secured IoT devices. The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.”
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Electricity company EnergyAustralia suffered a security breach, threat actors had access to information on 323 customers. EnergyAustralia is the country’s third-largest energy retailer. “It added that impacted customers had been contacted by text and email on October 2 with a prompt to reset their passwords.”. .
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 7, 2021
That’s the upshot of a new report, The State of Passwordless Security 2021 , put out by HYPR , a New York City-based supplier of advanced authentication systems. HYPR polled 427 IT professionals and found a high level of awareness about passwordless authenticators — and not just for enhanced security. Benefits beyond security.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 19, 2024
VF immediately began taking measures to remediate the attack and launched an investigation into the security breach. ” reads a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 18, 2024. VF Corp also added that it has found no evidence that customer passwords were stolen.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 1, 2021
30 , the FCC said it plans to move quickly on requiring the mobile companies to adopt more secure methods of authenticating customers before redirecting their phone number to a new device or carrier. In a long-overdue notice issued Sept. ” The FCC said the proposal was in response to a flood of complaints to the agency and the U.S.
Security Affairs
APRIL 12, 2024
The security firm pointed out that this is the first TA547 group to use this malware family. The TA547 group sent emails to the victims impersonating the German retail company Metro, purportedly related to invoices. The messages contain a password-protected ZIP file containing an LNK file when opened.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
This week, we discuss a security flaw affecting 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass; the prevalence of historic vulnerabilities in corporate IT systems; the increase in formjacking attacks; and Wendy’s $50 million data breach settlement. Each password manager also attempted to scrub secrets from memory.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 30, 2021
The company detected the security breach on January 6, 2021, and determined that the intrusion took place early this year, on January 4th, 2021. Then threat actors tricked UScellular employees working in retail stores into downloading and installing malicious software. ” reads the USCellular data breach notification.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 16, 2018
Unauthorized SIM swaps often are perpetrated by fraudsters who have already stolen or phished a target’s password, as many banks and online services rely on text messages to send users a one-time code that needs to be entered in addition to a password for online authentication. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.
The Texas Record
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Isn’t it fun to use different passwords for all of the dozens of accounts you use and just when you think you’ve got them memorized you’re forced to change them every few months? The standards on password usage are changing. Well, let me share some good news. Past ‘Best’ Practices. Like this: TxRecBi#1!
Security Affairs
JANUARY 6, 2022
This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. “After reviewing thousands of posts, the OAG compiled login credentials for customer accounts at 17 well-known companies, which included online retailers, restaurant chains, and food delivery services.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 1, 2021
Luxury retail company Neiman Marcus Group has announced this week that it has suffered a data breach that impacted customer information. Exposed personal information includes names and contact information, usernames, passwords, and answers to security questions associated with online accounts. The security breach impacted 4.6
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Retail giant The North Face has reset the passwords for some of its customers in response to a successful credential stuffing attack. Outdoor retail giant The North Face has forced a password reset for a number of its customers following a successful credential stuffing attack that took place on October 8th and 9th.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
This week, we discuss ICANN’s warning about DNS attacks, the extent of credential stuffing attacks on the retail sector, password managers’ responses to recent research into security flaws, and the European Data Protection Supervisor’s annual report for 2018. We often talk about the perils of password reuse.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 9, 2023
A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. Constella also shows the email address zankomario@gmail.com used the password “dugidox2407.”
Security Affairs
AUGUST 22, 2018
Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
Other campaigns observed by the experts invited recipients to claim gift cards from popular retailers like Home Depot. In this case, the spam messages include links to fake online survey pages that have nothing to do with the retailer’s gift card. The experts also published a guide for a secure holiday shopping.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 30, 2023
Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. JD Sports does not hold full payment card data and, further, has no reason to believe that account passwords were accessed.” According to the company, account passwords were compromised.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 14, 2023
It’s estimated that more than 20% of retail sales will come from eCommerce in 2023 (rising to nearly 25% in 2026), illustrating the magnitude of digital transactions. It’s not only consumers and retailers taking notice of this trend, of course. Privacy and data protection are not the only things consumers expect from a retailer.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 8, 2021
As reported on the Hunton Retail Law Resource blog , this week, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3 to 1 to accept a settlement agreement with MoviePass, Inc., The information allegedly was stored such that it was “accessible to any parties with an internet connection” after MoviePass failed to maintain and manage security controls.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Welcome to our third quarterly review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of cyber attacks and data breaches. In this article, you’ll find an overview of the cyber security landscape from the past three months, including the latest statistics and our observations.
IT Governance
JANUARY 9, 2020
Almost everyone wants to know what the future has in store – particularly when it comes to cyber security. With that in mind, Geraint Williams, IT Governance’s chief information security officer, discusses his cyber security predictions in the upcoming year. Our predictions. How should you prepare?
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 12, 2018
On January 8, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner (“ICO”) issued an unprecedented monetary penalty of £400,000 against British mobile phone retailer, The Car Phone Warehouse Limited. In its decision, the ICO meticulously detailed the chronology of events and technical failures that led to the breach.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 19, 2022
On October 12, 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office had secured a $1.9 million penalty from e-commerce retailer Zoetop, owner of SHEIN and ROMWE, following an improperly handled data breach. In addition to paying New York $1.9 In addition to paying New York $1.9
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Do not provide your mobile number account information over the phone to representatives that request your account password or pin. Use a variation of unique passwords to access online accounts. Do not store passwords, usernames, or other information for easy login on mobile device applications. Pierluigi Paganini.
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.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 22, 2019
The best news of the week with Security Affairs. A study reveals the list of worst passwords of 2019. Online Retailer LightInTheBox exposes unsecured DB containing 1.3TB of web server logs. TP-Link Archer routers allow remote takeover without passwords. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! Pierluigi Paganini.
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