The end of November is a busy time in the United States. On Thanksgiving, friends and family gather together to give thanks for good food and good company. Once they’ve put away the leftovers, many Americans don their coats and head to the malls for Black Friday. The official start to the Christmas shopping season, Black Friday is exciting because many retailers announce limited-time sales that promise huge savings to die-hard consumers.
On November 21st, NCR issued a security alert for a new form of Transaction Reversal Fraud (TRF) occurring in the UK, typically between 10 PM and midnight on any given day. Contrary to previously reported TRF attacks in which cash is pried from the dispenser after a payment reversal is initiated due to the jamming of the card reader, this new method does not require any interaction with the card reader or the use of modified cards.
With the growing complexity and velocity of security threats in dynamic, cloud-native environments, it’s more important than ever for security teams to have the same visibility into their infrastructure, network, and applications that developers and operations do. Conversely, as developers and operations become responsible for securing their services, they need their monitoring platform to help surface possible threats.
To Woodforest National Bank, “relationship banking” is everything. As one of the strongest community banks in the USA, they are well known for their hundreds of retail branches located within prominent operators of big box retail and grocery stores. In addition to 700 branches in 17 different states, their electronic payments line of business includes a multi-vendor fleet of 850+ ATMs and payment card issuance platforms.
With more and more automation systems and industrial devices being connected to networks, raw data from every device can be transformed into a treasure chest of valuable information. Granted, this data can help to optimize the process, but with connectivity comes new ICS cybersecurity concerns.
Over the past few years, there has been a massive cultural and legal shift in the way consumers view and secure their personal data online that’s in line with the rise of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence. Concerned by an increasing rate of incidents that range from the 2017 Equifax hack to the scandalous Cambridge Analytica gaming of consumers’ social media data for political purposes, policymakers have begun to strike back on consumers’ behalf.
There are scary villains out there, and they don’t just come out on Halloween. Forget about tricks, and treat yourself to something worth reading…but be warned…this blog is not for the faint of heart… The authentication or the decline of a payment transaction is often the defining factor of end customer experience.
To protect the integrity and safety of their business-critical assets, cybersecurity must be a top priority for the oil and gas industry. Although they operate some of the nation’s most critical systems, securing these complex infrastructures can be a huge challenge.
Industrial organizations face a growing list of digital threats these days. Back in April 2019, for instance, FireEye revealed that it had observed an additional intrusion by the threat group behind the destructive TRITON malware at another critical infrastructure.
