Advanced digital tools, readily available information, and new ways to buy online, unfortunately, has altered the ecommerce fraud landscape into a widely accessible territory for criminals to explore.
The concept of self-sovereign identity (SSI) is gaining interest as it allows users to selectively prove specific aspects of their digital identity using credentials stored in digital wallet.
Data privacy has long been an issue of public concern, and with changes in online technology, the problem has only deepened. From a legal perspective, a website’s privacy policy essentially functions as an agreement with a site’s users in which the operator seeks consent or agreement from the users to collect and process their personal information. The privacy policy also informs users of the specific type of information the site collects, and how this information will be utilised, processed or shared with third parties.
The holiday season in 2016 will see many of these large enterprises up their game in terms of protecting customer data. It’s not as if they have much choice, data breaches in the past have reduced public trust in online retailers – but the latest approaches to ensuring data security go some way to restoring that trust.
While it might be tempting to view a major vulnerability as an indication of open source somehow being deficient, the reality is far from that. Open source software is not more or less secure than commercial software, and in reality, most commercial software either includes or runs on open source technologies.
We give some insight into how companies could use a privacy impact assessment (PIA) in conjunction with data mapping practices to understand how data flows through an organisation, making it the perfect tool to document and track new initiatives.
Comprehensive protection in the 5G era requires a holistic approach to network security. This involves regular inspections, meticulous prioritization of threats, and systematic addressing of vulnerabilities.
There are significant gaps in virtual appliance security, and many products are distributed with known, exploitable, and fixable vulnerabilities and on outdated or unsupported operating systems.
In today’s corporate environment, everyone has become a privileged user accustomed to quick access and swift responses generated in seconds across platforms, vendors, and many different systems. A rigid and rule-bound access management system is no longer sufficient for companies that want to maintain a competitive edge.
The term protestware recently made global news when organizations in Russia and Belarus were attacked by malicious code that wiped their computers’ files. This malware was distributed through the popular open source JavaScript library, node-ipc, and was introduced by its maintainer in retaliation for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
