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Strong customer authentication (SCA) rules for e-commerce have come into force in the UK today following delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new measures mean UK shoppers will have to provide a combination of two forms of identification at checkout when making an online purchase. These will be two of the following forms of verification: knowledge – something they know (such as a password or PIN), possession – something they have (such as a mobile phone,…

IT retention in healthcare has long been full of aches and pains because of the deep skillset required, but David Reis has been lucky. Reis, CIO at the University of Miami Health System and Miller School of Medicine, has been able to grow his head count during both the pandemic and the Great Resignation, a feat he attributes to the fact that people who work in healthcare tend to be mission-driven. To help foster that…

The cybercrime underground has fractured into pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia camps, with the latter increasingly focused on critical national infrastructure (CNI) targets in the West, according to a new report from Accenture. The consulting giant’s Accenture Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) arm warned that the ideological schism could spell mounting risk for Western organizations as pro-Kremlin criminal groups adopt quasi-hacktivist tactics to choose their next victims. Organizations in the government, media, finance, insurance, utilities and resources sectors should…

For many IT pros, having the opportunity to volunteer their time and skills can be an inspiring perk. Companies have been responding of late by offering volunteer time off and by partnering with organizations that could benefit greatly from the added help of programs and staff time. LinkedIn is one such company giving IT pros an opportunity to make a difference as part of a longstanding partnership with job training nonprofit Year Up, which began…

The UK data protection regulator has fined a leading legal practice £98,000 after security failures that enabled ransomware actors to steal sensitive information on scores of court cases. Tuckers Solicitors, which has offices across southern England, the northwest and Midlands, describes itself as “the UK’s leading criminal defence lawyers.” However, according to a monetary penalty notice issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), its cybersecurity policy failed to comply with GDPR requirements for “technical and…

Defining XDR’s Role in the Security Stack By Steve Garrison, VP Marketing, Stellar Cyber XDR and Open XR are two of the latest buzzwords in the cybersecurity tools market, but there are many definitions of XDR and several approaches to delivering it. Let’s clear the air a little. In general, cybersecurity products use preventive physical and software measures to protect the network and its assets from unauthorized access, modification, destruction, and misuse. These products typically…