Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
Data breaches at retailers and financial services companies exposed 14 percent of all U.S. debit cards in 2013, according to a nationwide survey by a major ATM network operator.
The figure is three times that of 2012 and comes as consumers are using debit cards to make more purchases than ever ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2014
Researchers have warned of a vulnerability present on an estimated 86 percent of Android phones that may allow attackers to obtain highly sensitive credentials, including cryptographic keys for some banking services and virtual private networks, and PINs or patterns used to unlock vulnerable devices.
The vulnerability resides in the Android KeyStore, ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
Following a downward trend during the past two years, the number of new rootkit samples rose in the first quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2011, according to statistics from security vendor McAfee.
The sudden spike in rootkit infections during the first three months of the year ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Android has a well-earned reputation for malware issues, despite Google’s efforts to keep its Play Store free of rogue apps. But there are many dark corners of Android where malware continues to thrive, particularly on independent app stores that do little or nothing to keep such apps at bay.
Security advisors ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
A new malware campaign spreading the Zeus trojan via phishing messages was discovered by researchers early Wednesday.
AppRiver, an email messaging and web security solutions firm, told SCMagazine.com on Wednesday that it had quarantined 400,000 messages so far – a number that had jumped up from 40,000 just earlier in the ...
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