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| | | Newegg Confirms Credit Card Information Was Taken in a Sophisticated Attack | | PCWorld | Online retailer Newegg on Wednesday confirmed that credit card information from customers had been stolen using a sophisticated attack. This makes Newegg the latest company to get hit by black hat hacker groups collectively called Magecart. Security researchers at RiskIQ said a very similar "Magecart assault" was also used against British Airways and Ticketmaster earlier this year. | | Gmail’s Polarizing Smart Replies Will Soon Be Optional for Desktop Users | | The Verge | Google plans to give desktop users the ability to turn off Gmail’s new Smart Replies in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal reports. The feature, which arrived alongside the service’s recent redesign, attempts to provide short phrases which you can use to automatically respond to emails, but has faced criticism for suggesting some inappropriate responses. | | WebAuthn, FIDO2 Infuse Browsers, Platforms with Strong Authentication | | Dark Reading | Two modern authentication innovations born from collaboration between the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the FIDO Alliance now offer cross-platform standards that enable strong authentication based on battle-tested public key cryptography. These authentication upgrades, combined with a palatable user experience, are today's hope that tomorrow begins to end reliance on passwords as a security construct. | | Amazon Is About to Announce New Hardware at a Surprise Event | | The Verge | "Remember when Amazon held a 'surprise' event last September and introduced a bunch of new Echo devices? Well, it’s doing it again this year in what looks to become an annual hardware event. The announcements will kick off today at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET," writes Natt Garun. |
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| | | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Security Teams | | Dark Reading | "Security requires smart people, processes, and technology. Too often, the 'people' portion of the PPT equation is neglected," writes Gary Golomb. "Based on the experience of working with hundreds of security professionals and some of the most security-conscious organizations in the world, here are seven habits of the most effective security teams." |
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