PCI Council Launches Flexible Mobile Payments Standard

Announcement recognizes growing volume of smartphone payments

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More Than Half of Black Friday Spam Emails Are Scams

New research analyzes email scam techniques in the build-up to this year’s Black Friday

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November 17, 2022

User-Specific Security Group for Remote Access

ACM.114 Create a security group with a specific user’s IP address This is a continuation of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. In the last post I explained how failure to report errors causes systems and software to break. Why You Should Not Swallow Errors Now we’re going to move on to deploying a user-specific VM on AWS. […]

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Smashing Security podcast #298: Housing market scams, Twitter 2FA, and the fesshole

Elon Musk is still causing chaos at Twitter (and it’s beginning to impact users), are scammers selling your house without your permission, and Google gets stung with a record-breaking fine. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole […]

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Get elite identity theft protection from a top-rated provider

Prevent cybercriminals from stealing your identity by acting on this great deal for IDX, which will monitor the Dark Web, your social media accounts and more for suspicious activity and help you recover your identity, if needed. The post Get elite identity theft protection from a top-rated provider appeared first on TechRepublic.

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UN’s International Day of Tolerance is a good reminder that workforce diversity should be 365-day goal

Since 1996, United Nations members have commemorated Nov. 16 as International Day of Tolerance. As a word, tolerance can mean different things to different people and cultures. The UN defines tolerance as: “respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human.” I define […]

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November 16, 2022

Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode, an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic. The Disneyland Team’s Web interface, which allows them to interact with malware victims […]

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