Sean Gregerson – VP Global APM – AVEVA Chemical companies are looking for new ways to thrive amid an evolving and increasingly competitive marketplace. During the pandemic, industrial firms were generally driven to enable remote working and transform operations simultaneously. They also needed to increase agility and resilience to respond to dynamically changing market demands. What’s more, the additional pressures of compliance, reducing costs, and growing demand for sustainable chemical products are all fueling an…

Florida is seeking to outlaw the malicious distribution of sexually explicit images without the subject’s consent.  New legislation advanced in the Florida Senate Criminal Justice Committee on Tuesday aims to curb the unauthorized digital trafficking of real and deepfake lewd content and establish new regulations around revenge porn. Senate Bill 1798, introduced by senator Lauren Book, would prohibit someone from knowingly, willfully and maliciously disseminating deepfake sexually explicit images without the permission of the individual(s) pictured.  It would also criminalize the theft…

A configuration error has caused a prolonged data breach at a Florida County’s drug screening laboratory.  The security incident occurred at St. Lucie County’s Drug Screening Lab (SLC Lab), which supplies drug testing services for employment, court cases and other purposes. In a statement released January 20 2022, County leaders said that a misconfiguration detected in the lab’s website portal had inadvertently made some of the portal users’ personal data accessible for more than four years. “Upon…

An anonymous hacker has raised the alarm after discovering a vulnerability impacting Switzerland’s national railway system. The flaw allowed the hacker to gain access to personal data belonging to around 500,000 individuals who had purchased tickets to ride on Swiss Federal Railways (SFR). After detecting a weak spot in SFR’s Swiss Card system, the hacker reported it to the Rundschau show, which airs on Swiss public television, SRF. Information left vulnerable by the flaw included…

  PCI SSC has announced a newly expanded Brazil Regional Engagement Board (REB). Here we talk with PCI SSC Associate Director, LA Region for Brazil, Carlos Caetano, about the value of the board, its role and agenda for 2022.

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A Canadian man has been handed a three year prison sentence after being found guilty of buying and selling over 1700 stolen identities on a dark web marketplace. 29-year-old Slava Dmitriev, who went by the online handle of “GoldenAce”, bought and sold individuals’ personal private information, including social security numbers, on the AlphaBay dark web marketplace in 2016 and 2017. Between May 2016 and July 2017, Dmitriev is said to have stolen 1,764 items on…