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Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach? Retailers started the century as the prime targets for cyber attackers looking for credit card data. Today, unfortunately, retailers are again coming back to the spotlight. Similar to many organizations, 36% of retail respondents cited human error as the leading threat.

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The Rise of the Bad Bots

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While this individual statistic is astounding, it is only the tip of the iceberg. Generative AI technology uses web scraping bots and automated crawlers to feed its training models while enabling nontechnical users to write automated scripts for personal use. in 2022 to 39.6%

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Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling

The Security Ledger

Max gives us some tips about how best to respond to ransomware threats and attacks. While exact numbers are hard to come by, large scale studies of companies found that more than a third had been hit by ransomware in the past year, with the retail, government and education sectors particularly hard hit.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Successful EDI Operations (Getting Started)

Rocket Software

For instance, retailers, manufacturers, insurers, healthcare providers, and transportation companies use EDI daily to communicate critical business information with trading partners, customers, and electronic marketplaces. Do cross train your team . For the most part, it is. Save the IT jargon for the CIO. .

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CyberheistNews Vol 12 #49 [Keep An Eye Out] Beware of New Holiday Gift Card Scams

KnowBe4

Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing. Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Join us TOMORROW, Wednesday, December 7 @ 2:00 PM (ET) , for a live demo of how KnowBe4 introduces a new-school approach to security awareness training and simulated phishing. Did You Know?

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for July 2022

IT Governance

Hardman provided tips to help OpenSea users spot phishing attacks. The next most frequent targets were software-as-a-service and webmail providers (20.5%) and e-commerce sites and retail stores (14.6%). You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. It found that 23.6%

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National Cybersecurity Alliance advocates ‘shared responsibility’ for securing the Internet

The Last Watchdog

Related: Using ‘gamification’ for security training. A large retailer may spend millions on cyber security. We will give them 10 so focused tips and ask them to just take a couple of them, just do it two or three things to improve their security posture.