THG develops award winning anti-fraud tech
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The Hut Group (THG) has developed an award winning anti-fraud technology which won recognition at last night’s Retail Risk’s Fraud Awards 2020.
The tech, coined THG Detect, is used by…
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Internet outages bring down NHS app, Amazon, Waitrose and thousands more websites potentially costing millions in lost revenues
Amazon, Tesco Bank, Waitrose and the NHS app were all taken offline yesterday as widespread internet outages hit millions of users.
The NHS app, now notorious amid the ongoing ‘pingdemic’…
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Online shopping scams skyrocketed 65% during pandemic costing shoppers £69m
Online shopping fraud has skyrocketed by 65 per cent over the past year seeing online fraud victims lose a whopping £2.3 billion.
Fraud rates are continuing to skyrocket across the…
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Civil rights organisations are calling on retailers to ditch facial recognition technology to screen shoppers over fears it can lead to abuses.
A coalition of over 35 organisations including National…
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More than 38,000 users reported…
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Over the weekend hackers…
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Two major beauty retailers face lawsuits over virtual try-on technology
Two major beauty retailers are facing class action lawsuits over accusations their virtual makeup services are illegally storing users’ biometric data.
Ulta Beauty and Mary Kay, which both offer popular…
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TikTok insiders raise cybersecurity concerns over the app’s controllership
TikTok former employees have raised concerns over the app’s controllership, saying that the social media site’s Beijing-based parent company ByteDance controls everything.
A former TikTok recruiter told CNBC that she…
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Data protection at global consumer forefront due to Covid-19
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Cybercriminals take advantage of pandemic store-closures to increase scams
Cybercriminals used a ranged of techniques to scam online shoppers during the heights of the pandemic according to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report.
The report showed that while the vast…
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As the pandemic set in across the country, restrictions brought a temporary pause to the traditional methods of shopping for groceries.
With demand for online delivery skyrocketing overnight, huge…