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8 Ways to Protect Yourself against Scams on Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Adam Levin

of those consumers lost money due to those scams, up from 71.2% A BBB survey conducted in August found that the majority of these scammed consumers made purchases for which they never received products. Credit cards come with consumer protections that limit your liability if your card information is stolen.

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CafePress faces $500,000 fine for data breach cover up

Malwarebytes

According to Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection: “CafePress employed careless security practices and concealed multiple breaches from consumers.”. CafePress waited seven months to publicly disclose a 2019 breach, and only did so after it had been reported in the news. The breach.

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Turning Aspiration into Action to Protect Financial Institutions

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data security professionals also make ambitious plans, but implementation rates are too low – a key finding in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Financial Services Edition. Here’s a look at four common issues highlighted in the 2019 Thales Data Threat Report-Financial Services Edition and tips for overcoming them. Compliance v.

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Zoom Settles with FTC over Allegations of Deceptive Security Practices

Hot for Security

One major allegation brought forth by the FTC is that, since at least 2016, Zoom misled users by claiming it offered ‘end-to-end, 256-bit encryption’ when in fact it provided a lower level of security. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom’s install base has ballooned from 10 million in December 2019 to 300 million in April 2020.

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PSD2 Regulation and Compliance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

PSD2 Regulation and Compliance josh.pearson@t… Wed, 09/04/2024 - 23:44 The PSD2 directive is a cornerstone of payment legislation in Europe, designed to enhance consumer protection, foster innovation, and create a more integrated and secure European payment landscape. Initially, PSD2 was set to take full effect on September 14, 2019.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. So system matching learns what to what's an anomaly in addition to all the hundreds of rules that are typically written into a sim and the built in data governance, or GDPR, the CCPA California Consumer Protection Act, and then the fact that the programming is is easier.