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• Windy City to Welcome 2,000 New Jobs in Cybersecurity and Technology

  19-11-2019 21:59
  Windy City to Welcome 2,000 New Jobs in Cybersecurity and Technology Cybersecurity and technology firms have revealed plans to create 2,000 new jobs in Chicago, Illinois, next year.The encouraging news was revealed yesterday when representatives of 15 different businesses joined the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, to celebrate the city's third annual Tech Day. The event was held at the headquarters of software company Relativity. Chicago’s first African American–owned cybers
  
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• Only 12.5% of Top US Retailers Protect Customers from Email Fraud

  19-11-2019 20:42
  Only 12.5% of Top US Retailers Protect Customers from Email Fraud A study conducted by cloud-based email security company Red Sift has found that only 12.5% of America's top 100 retailers have taken steps to prevent fraudulent emails from landing in their customers' inboxes.The worrying finding emerged after Red Sift researchers looked into the DMARC status of companies featured in STORES Magazine’s Top 100 Retailers for 2019, along with their subsidiaries.&nb
  
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• PayMyTab Exposes Data of US Restaurant Goers

  19-11-2019 19:57
  PayMyTab Exposes Data of US Restaurant Goers A mobile payments provider exposed the data of thousands of US restaurant goers for 16 months by failing to follow security protocols. PayMyTab didn't change the security settings to "private" on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket that the company has been using to store customer data since July 2, 2018.Data exposed included personally identifying information (PII) of customers who had paid for restaurant meals using the PayMyTab se
  
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• Gerry Adams was interned illegally during Troubles, supreme court told

  19-11-2019 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wrong minister approved order, court hears during appeal to overturn convictions for escaping Maze prison in 70sThe former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was interned illegally at the height of Northern Ireland’s Troubles because the wrong minister approved his detention order, the supreme court in London has been told.In an attempt to overturn two criminal convictions for escaping from the Maze prison in 1973 and 1974, lawyers for the 71-year-old are challenging the way he was origin
  
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• Gerry Adams was illegally interned during troubles, supreme court told

  19-11-2019 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wrong minister approved order, court hears, during appeal to overturn convictions for escaping Maze prison in 70sThe former SinnFéin leader Gerry Adams was illegally interned at the height of Northern Ireland’s Troubles because the wrong minister approved his detention order, the supreme court in London has been told.In an attempt to overturn two criminal convictions for escaping from the Maze prison in 1973 and 1974, lawyers for the 71-year-old are challenging the way in which he w
  
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• Governments Lose Millions to DNS Attacks Each Year

  19-11-2019 11:24
  Governments Lose Millions to DNS Attacks Each YearGlobal governments lose nearly $7 million on average from DNS attacks each year, the most of any sector, according to new research from EfficientIP.The DNS security vendor commissioned IDC to poll nearly 1000 IT and security leaders from North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, to compile its IDC 2019 Global DNS Threat Report.It revealed that public sector organizations around the world suffer on average 12 DNS attacks per year, costing over half
  
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• Macy’s Online Customers Hit by Magecart Breach

  19-11-2019 11:15
  Macy’s Online Customers Hit by Magecart BreachMacy’s is notifying some of its online customers that their card details have been skimmed as part of another Magecart data breach.According to the breach notice, the firm only found out about the incident around a week after it happened, in early October.“On October 15, 2019, we were alerted to a suspicious connection between macys.com and another website. Our security teams immediately began an investigation. Based on our investig
  
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• Louisiana Servers Down After Another Ransomware Blitz

  19-11-2019 10:49
  Louisiana Servers Down After Another Ransomware BlitzA major ransomware attack on Louisiana state IT infrastructure yesterday forced multiple services offline, including government websites, email and internal applications.The incident was revealed by Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards in a series of tweets on Monday afternoon, local time.He claimed the state’s Office of Technology Services (OTS) detected a cybersecurity threat that “affected some, but not all state servers,”
  
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