Cosmetics giant Sephora first to be fined for violating California’s Consumer Privacy Act
Sephora will have to pay $1.2 million in penalties, inform California customers it sells their personal data and offer them ways to opt out.
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Image: Adobe Stock Security Privacy and security issues associated with facial recognition software
As the facial recognition market continues to grow, business leaders should consider these issues before deciding whether to implement the technology.
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Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto/Balefire9 Security How a business email compromise attack exploited Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication
Mitiga says that MFA, even if improperly configured, is no panacea for preventing attackers from abusing compromised credentials.
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Image: iStock/Avosb After Hours Tech news you may have missed: Aug. 18 – 25
Apple updates, cookie theft, tech tips and a 5G cheat sheet top this week’s most-read news on TechRepublic.
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Image: iStock/jauhari1 Security How a business email compromise scam spoofed the CFO of a major corporation
In a scam analyzed by Avanan, the victim received an email claiming to be from the CFO directing them to make a payment to their insurance company.
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Image: vectorhot/Adobe Stock CXO There’s a problem with online ads, and it’s not what you think
Commentary: Jack Wallen has had enough with online ads crashing the party of his productivity. Find out what has him so riled up.
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Image: nevarpp, Getty Images/iStockphoto Security How ransomware attacks target specific industries
Analyzing over 100 prominent ransomware incidents, Barracuda found the top targeted sectors to be education, municipalities, healthcare, infrastructure and financial.
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Getty Images/iStockphoto Security Iranian cyberespionage group uses new Hyperscrape tool to extract emails from victims’ mailboxes
Learn more about a new Iranian tool dubbed Hyperscrape and how it is used by a cyberespionage group to extract content from victims’ inboxes.
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Image: Adobe Stock Security Cookie theft threat: When multi-factor authentication is not enough
A lot of companies have deployed multi-factor authentication, yet attackers have some ways to bypass it—the most used one being cookie theft.
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Image: JustSuper/Adobe Stock Security How to protect your organization from ransomware-as-a-service attacks
RaaS kits are easy to find on the Dark Web, lowering the barrier of entry so that virtually any cybercriminal can launch successful ransomware attacks, says Microsoft.
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Image: chingching/Adobe Stock Security Your organization needs regional disaster recovery: Here’s how to build it on Kubernetes
System outages are inevitable, but you can minimize disruptions. Here’s why regional disaster recovery based on Kubernetes container orchestration is crucial to effective business continuity.
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Image: Unsplash Security How to strengthen the human element of cybersecurity
Security expert explains how IT leaders can work with employees to ensure security strategies and techniques are actually implemented.
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Image: Wirestock/Adobe Stock Security How to unlock 1Password on a Mac
Get access to your passwords in a snap with 1Password on your macOS device.
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Image: zephyr_p/Adobe Stock Security Alternatives to facial recognition authentication
Learn the problem with facial recognition as well as software and hardware alternatives to the technology.
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Image: Adobe Stock Security Apple users urged to install latest updates to combat hacking
The new updates patch security flaws in iOS/iPadOS, macOS and Safari that could be exploited by hackers to gain remote control of an affected device.