IT Governance

JULY 5, 2022

Welcome to our July 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over their personal data. NFT marketplace warns users of phishing scams. NFT marketplace warns users of phishing scams. We are working with Customer.io

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Welcome to our December review of phishing scams, in which we look at the latest tricks that cyber criminals use to scam people. IKEA found itself battling a sophisticated phishing attack last month, after cyber criminals targeted employees using compromised reply-chain emails. IKEA ensnared in reply-chain attack.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Welcome to our November review of phishing scams, in which we examine the latest campaigns and the tactics being used by cyber criminals to fool you into handing over your information. Phishing attacks are harder to spot on your smartphone. Phishing attacks are harder to spot on your smartphone. Get started.

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IT Governance

JUNE 21, 2023

Phishing attacks are among the most common forms of cyber crime that organisations face, so it’s crucial that you learn how to prevent scams. We answer that question in this blog, as we provide our top ten ways to avoid phishing attacks. However, these are the clearest and most consistent signs that something might be amiss.

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IT Governance

APRIL 6, 2021

Additionally, you should be wary of unsolicited emails, texts or adverts – particularly if they offer suspiciously good deals – and check whether the vendor is a member of STAR (Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers). Make sure your staff know how to identify and avoid scams with our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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IT Governance

JUNE 21, 2018

It is widely acknowledged that the retail and hospitality industries experience high staff turnover: frontline roles are often filled by temporary, young or part-time staff, the hours can be long and unsociable and the work can be physically demanding. and they won’t be slowed down by others, which usually happens in live training.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The intruders got in by tricking UScellular retail store employees into downloading malicious software on store computers. Attacks like this are unfortunately frequent and even well-intentioned, well-trained, users can fall victim to a clever attack. And now UScellular admits that it detected its network breach on Jan.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Football world-governing body FIFA has admitted that its systems suffered a sustained phishing hack earlier this year. It is believed that the breach was caused by an employee falling for a phishing scam. Phishing attacks are increasingly sophisticated, but there are simple steps that can be taken to mitigate the risks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But right now, pure AI can be programmed for many tasks that require thought and intelligence , as long as that intelligence can be gathered digitally and used to train an AI system. Generative AI can produce high-quality text, images and other content based on the data used for training. We’re all amazed by what AI can do.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Phishing and malware are among the most common types of cyber attacks that we detect, but in many cases the breached organisation doesn’t disclose how it fell victim. Notably, there has been a decline in data breaches and cyber attacks in the retail sector compared to Q2 (18 vs 41). In Q3, they accounted for 38% of all incidents.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2021

The group focuses on organizations in the insurance, retail, technology, and chemical industries in the U.S., The group has been active since 2016, it leverages known malware such as PUNCHTRACK and BADHATCH to infect PoS systems and steal payment card data. Canada, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Italy.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Besides the traumatic experience for some retail employees and those injured in shop-floor brawls, Black Friday is also a time in which many of us are caught out by scams, with cyber criminals taking advantage of customers desperate for a bargain. From here, the scam looks a lot like the Amazon phishing scam that we described earlier.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

With so many of us spending money freely and hurriedly trying to bag the best deal available, it’s inevitable that someone will visit a dodgy website or click a phishing email because they thought it was about an online order they’d made. They then hijack instant messaging accounts by phishing their owners or sending them keylogging malware.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Phish You for Information to Supposedly Get a Gift Card. Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing. Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Get a look at THREE NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users. Did You Know? dollars). "The

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

The report outlines how cyber hacking groups are becoming more specialised and diversified, with some groups now using SME’s security systems as a training ground for new hackers to learn their trade.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Phishing and malware are among the most common types of cyber attacks, but in many cases the breached organisation doesn’t disclose how it fell victim. We have seen, for example, a renewed interest in more traditional attack methods, such as phishing. Cyber criminals continue to launch attacks and using different techniques.

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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

Phishing and malware are among the most common types of cyber attacks, but in many cases the breached organisation doesn’t disclose how it fell victim. Throughout this year, we have seen cyber criminals move away from ransomware and back to more traditional attack methods, such as phishing. Keeping your organisation secure.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2024

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. Example A digital retailer catalogs all the different kinds of customer data it holds, like names, email addresses, and saved payment information. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends.

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IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2022

Phishing and malware are among the most common types of cyber attacks, but in many cases the breached organisation doesn’t disclose how it fell victim. The other big contributors were the technology and media sector (35 incidents), the education sector (25), professional services (18) and retail (16). Keeping your organisation secure.

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IT Governance

JULY 13, 2021

Phishing and malware are among the most common types of cyber attacks that we detected, but in many cases the breached organisation hasn’t disclosed how it fell victim. The education, technology and retail sectors were the other big contributors to Q2’s total with 44, 42, and 41 incidents, respectively.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It also advised members to be aware of phishing emails: You should also be aware that third parties may claim to be Radisson Rewards and attempt to gather personal information by deception (known as ‘phishing’) […] Radisson Rewards will not ask for your password or user information to be provided in an e-mail.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

What would happen if you typed in “Amazon,” the corresponding domain popped up, and you clicked, but instead of finding the world’s largest online retailer, you landed on a 1980s WarGames-themed page with a laughing skull? A prospective client or customer types your company name and their browser does the rest.

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Retail Authentication Insurance Data breaches 52

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to our November 2022 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. Elsewhere, we assess data breaches at a cancer research facility and the US retailer Bed Bath & Beyond.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Countless hotel chains, retailers and restaurants have been breached in recent years – particularly in the US, which by and large doesn’t use chip-and-PIN. Organisations can address both these failings by emphasising information security staff awareness training.

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IT Governance

JULY 23, 2018

With human error posing one of the biggest security risks, it’s all too easy to accidentally click a link in a well-constructed phishing email. It is vital to ensure that your teams are trained appropriately , with annual refreshers to maintain awareness. A report of staff training.

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IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2023

Phishing and malware are among the most common types of cyber attacks, but in many cases the breached organisation doesn’t disclose how it fell victim. The other big contributors were the technology sector (36 incidents), the public sector (35), and the retail and leisure sector (27).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

The usual avenues such as email phishing , credential compromise, and exploitation of vulnerabilities will continue and even expand. The need for security awareness training is now clear to most organizations, and they are starting to evolve from just training to additional emphasis on behavior and culture,” said Huisman.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. The most common attack type we observe is model skewing, where the attacker attempts to pollute training data in such a way that the boundary between what the classifier categorizes as good data, and what the classifier categorizes as bad, shifts in his favor.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. The most common attack type we observe is model skewing, where the attacker attempts to pollute training data in such a way that the boundary between what the classifier categorizes as good data, and what the classifier categorizes as bad, shifts in his favor.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 21, 2018

Only time will tell – and we may not have to wait long – but in the meantime, what is the impact of data breaches in the retail industry, and what needs to be done to mitigate them? Despite the prospect of fines and other penalties, many retailers are still not PCI-compliant. million users was compromised. The PCI DSS.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 17, 2019

Six hours after my story ran saying Wipro was in the throes of responding to a breach, the company was quoted in an Indian daily newspaper acknowledging a phishing incident. I then asked when the company believed the phishing attacks began, and Ballapuram said he could not confirm the approximate start date of the attacks beyond “weeks.”

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

All signs pointed to a senior employee being tricked by a spear phishing or whaling scam. In yet another case of cyber criminals pouncing on the uncertainty caused by a developing news story, a phishing campaign emerged in October that took advantage of Twitter’s plans to overhaul its verification process.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. LogicManager is lauded for its user experience and technical training and was named a Challenger in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT risk management. LogicManager.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. LogicManager is lauded for its user experience and technical training and was named a Challenger in Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for IT risk management. LogicManager.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Boost your organization’s IT literacy with ongoing cybersecurity training so they recognize the threats posed by malware attacks. Attackers often use botnets to send out spam or phishing campaigns to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Phishing and Social Engineering. How to Defend Against Phishing.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Unlike an attack on retailers, for example, victims have no alternative when systems are down. Staff awareness training is an essential and often overlooked tool in the fight against cyber crime, providing a defence against threats like phishing, which target human error. Unfortunately, there’s no single solution.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Phishing scams use it to compromise networks. That makes employee training a critically important defense – see our picks for the best employee cybersecurity awareness training tools. They spot unwanted traffic such as spam, phishing expeditions, malware, and scams. The bad news is that email security is not.

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