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Online Businesses Often Steal And Exploit Customer Data Collected During Cancelled Transactions

Joseph Steinberg

Over the past year I have experimented to see how various retailers handle personal information that they collect from customers, especially when such information is collected as part of a purchase made by the customer in what appears, at first glance, to be some “amazing deal.”

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Fashion brand Guess hacked, DarkSide ransomware group the likely culprit

SC Magazine

A Guess retail store. Following news that noted fashion brand Guess suffered a data breach in which personal information may have been stolen, cybersecurity experts on Tuesday said that retailers should take this case as motivation to lock down their cyber defenses. N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

The tech titans have swelled into multi-billion dollar behemoths by myopically focusing on delivering targeted online advertising, in support of online retailing. Cybercriminals have begun escalating their efforts to bend the legitimate online advertising and retailing fulfillment ecosystem to their whims.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. banks are stiffing account takeover victims. A report commissioned by Sen.

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Online market for counterfeit goods in Russia has reached $1,5 billion

Security Affairs

“It also leads to a decrease in what we call the psychological price, i.e. the cost that customers are willing to pay for a product from the official retailer. Scammers create fake websites of known brands, fraudulent promotional campaigns, and fake accounts on social media. Phishing remains one of the most common online fraud.

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Privacy predictions 2022

SecureList

As for less computer-savvy folk, do not expect privacy by default: even when legally obliged to provide privacy by default, enterprises whose bottom ine depends on data collection will continue to find loopholes to trick people into choosing less private settings.

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Threat Report Portugal: Q3 & Q4 2022

Security Affairs

The Threat Report Portugal: H2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from July to December, H2, 2022. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open-sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática.