Detecting and Responding to POS Skimmers and Shimmers

The Growing Threat of POS Skimmer and Shimmers Point-of-Sale skimmers and shimmers are a pervasive and growing threat to retailers. Global loses from all forms of credit card fraud are estimated by The Nilson Report to exceed $32 billion in 2019. One fast-growing type of fraud impacting retailers is the use of POS skimmers and shimmers. Secretly…

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Shape Security’s VP of Intelligence Center to Speak at Upcoming Retail Cyber Intelligence Summit

Dan Woods, Shape Security’s Vice President of Intelligence Center, will present at the upcoming Retail Cyber Intelligence Summit taking place September 24-25, 2019, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Denver, Colorado. 2018 saw a significant increase in user credential spills from retailers. And as the retail industry continues to increase its digitization, it creates more…

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Tala Security’s 2019 State of the Web Report

The Tala Security 2019 State of the Web report is here! The report is designed to educate enterprises about the significant and under-recognized security challenges related to their web assets. Tangible data, risk analysis and insights are presented as gleaned from the most frequented websites in the US defined by the Alexa 1000.  Key findings…

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Why Red? Why Purple? A NIST CSF View

Red and Purple Teaming serve distinct purposes, and we think NIST CSF backs us up on that. We outline why we believe in starting with Purple Teams to validate Protect and Detect before using Red Teams to validate Respond. I’ve heard the question, “Do Purple Teams help to test the incident response process?” over and…

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