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Uber Accounts, $1
Stolen Uber Customer accounts are for sale on the Dark Web for the low price of $1.00. Though most of the credit cards are masked, the last four and the expiration date are still available. The rest of the data … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, breach, cyber risk, dark web, hackers, passwords, privacy, risk, uber
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Survey Says 80% of Security Risks are Users
Bromium surveyed 100 security professionals to see what they thought their biggest security risk was. Through my own research, I have found that the best way to give security awareness training, is NOT this way, with one time security awareness … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, compliance, Information Technology Security Awareness, risk, Security Awareness
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Is that a Mouse in your Pocket or?
You ready to bring unauthorized hardware on my ‘secure’ network? Mouse-box, the computer in a mouse, is still in prototype. All we know right now is that it is running ChromeOS or Linux. Maybe a variant of Kali will work too. … Continue reading
Smartwatch to Smartphone Data Interception
Data sent between a Smartwatch and an Android smartphone could be a subject to brute force hacks to intercept and decode users’ data, including everything from text messages to Google Hangout chats and Facebook conversations. Liviu Arsene explains. Read more … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, android, bluetooth, cyber risk, Google, nfc, risk, smart-watch, sniffing, video tutorial, wearables
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Contactless Payment Cards Will Approve Foreign Currency Transactions of up to 999,999.99
“With just a mobile phone we created a POS terminal that could read a card through a wallet,” explains Martin Emms, from the NewCastle University research team during the 2014 ACM CCS Conference held in the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, contactless payment card, credit card, foreign currency, PCI Compliance, risk, visa
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Mid-year 2014 Data Breaches Exposed
2014 is going to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records, according to Risk Based Security. Mid-year 2014 at a Glance … • There were 1331 incidents reported during the first six months of 2014 exposing … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, breach, breach report, breaches, computer security, credit card, fraud, hacked, hacking, incidents, records, risk, risk analysis, risk management, security, Security Awareness
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PRINCE2 Risk Management
22 minutes of your time and you will learn PRINCE2 Risk Management.
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Tagged 2014, likelihood, probability, risk, risk analysis, risk author, risk category, risk management, risk response
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The Ponemon Institute’s Data Breach Study
In my opinion, the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of Data Breach Study is eye-opening. If you use a GRC tool that associates dollar amount loss per record, you should probably read this report and make the necessary changes. Increasing the cost … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, breach, ponemon, quantitative, risk, risk analysis, study, values
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