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Why aren’t chip credit cards stopping “card present” fraud in the US?
Chip cards work by creating a unique code for each transaction, and (ideally) require a customer to enter a PIN to verify that they want to make the purchase. This doesn't make it impossible to steal information from chip-based cards, but it does make it much harder to reuse a stolen card. By contrast, using a magnetic stripe to swipe a card simply offers all the relevant information to the merchant's card reader, which is much easier for a bad actor to steal.
Gemini Advisory now says that 60 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen in the US in the past 12 months, and most of those were chip-based cards.
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Encryption bill: US academic questions what law is trying to achieve
American cryptography fellow Riana Pfefferkorn has questioned what end the Federal Government's encryption bill is trying to achieve, asking whether the ends of keeping crime under control could not be achieved by other means.
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Encryption bill: 'systemic weakness' eludes definition
The Federal Government is yet to properly define in its encryption bill what a systemic weakness means, and the question came up more than once for discussion during the second hearing on the bill before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Security and Intelligence.
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Minister in Charge of Japan’s Cybersecurity Says He Has Never Used a Computer
But one is. Japanese lawmakers were aghast on Wednesday when Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, the minister who heads the government’s cybersecurity office, said during questioning in Parliament that he had no need for the devices, and appeared confused when asked basic technology questions.
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Former Facebook security chief: 'I failed to prepare my employer' on Russian disinformation
While Stamos took some blame, in a tweet thread he also took at aim at other groups he felt were partially responsible for enabling Russian election interference and credited Facebook for going public with information about misinformation campaigning on its platform when other companies did not.
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Companies keep losing your data because it doesn't cost them anything
Why does this keep happening? Because it's affordable. In 2014, Home Depot breached more than 50,000,000 credit-cards; in 2016, they paid less than $0.34/customer in restitution.
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Massive Data Leaks Keep Happening Because Big Companies Can Afford to Lose Your Data
When criminal [crackers] keep breaking into big company networks to grab consumer data, the reason comes down to dollars and nonsense.
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