Saturday, January 18th, 2014
Cybercriminals have stolen payment card data from six more U.S. retailers using similar point-of-sale malware that compromised Target, a computer crime intelligence company said Friday.
The conclusion comes from a study of members-only forums where cybercriminals buy and sell data and malicious software tools, said Dan Clements[cq], president of IntelCrawler, which ...
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Thursday, January 16th, 2014
Blackphone is a new venture from the collaboration of US Silent Circle and Spain's Geeksphone. Its website is registered in privacy-conscious Switzerland. Most notably it includes the renowned cryptographers Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas, the originators of PGP. As yet there is little technical information beyond a brief video on the Blackphone website – ...
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Sunday, January 12th, 2014
Neiman Marcus has been notifying customers of a data breach after hackers stole merchant card information for an undisclosed number of shoppers.
The high-end retailer said it was working with the U.S. Secret Service and a forensics firm to investigate the theft, which it said it learned about in December from ...
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Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
Researchers warn that a new threat, using harder-to-crack encryption methods than comparable ransomware, may hit the black market soon.
The malware, which locks users out of their computer until they pay a ransom, is being called Prison Locker and Power Locker on underground forums, according to a Friday blog post at Malware Must Die.
According ...
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Sunday, January 5th, 2014
Yahoo.com visitors over the last few days may have been served with malware via the Yahoo ad network, according to a security firm in the Netherlands. Users clicking on some of the ads were redirected to sites armed with code that exploits vulnerabilities in Java and installs a variety of different ...
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