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While most Americans are familiar with the Target data breach that occurred from Black Friday through December 15th, what they really want to know now is how cyber thieves were able to gain access into Target's network and then into their payment system. Well Brian Krebs of Krebs On Security, the website that broke the [...]
Krebsonsecurity, who's usually right on when it comes to credit card security, is reporting that Home Depot may have suffered a massive data breach of customer credit card data. In this report, Daniel Krebs, a trusted reported on matters of credit card security, has begun investigating what looks like a massive breach of customer data. [...]
By now we are all too familiar with the 2013 Target holiday data breach security experts have suggested that the data thieves in the case of the nation's second largest discount department store chain, have topped 110 million customers. The data in the Target breach was obtained through malware injected into the company's point of [...]
If you live in a college down or surbanite area you are probably familiar with the Jimmy Johns cold sub chain. Jimmy Johns delivers subs, which we think are pretty darn good, freaky fast (and freaky good). Obviously like all sub shops that deliver, credit cards are a major part of their business. Well numerous [...]
What started as a routine traffic stop in New York City wound up revealing a heist of over $20,000 in Apple products. The Wall Street Cheat Sheet reports that New York Police recently discovered the Apple products when they pulled a car over for running a red light. The suspects ended up having their car [...]
It looks like the California DMV may be the latest in a string of big data breaches. While the alleged data breach at the California DMV is nowhere near the size of the Target theft, for some, the thought is far less comforting. Security expert Brian Krebs, from Krebs On Security, and the same writer [...]
Were you one of the tens of millions of customers that shopped at your local Target store over the Black Friday shopping weekend? Well if you were, you may want to read this and then immediately check your online banking. Reuters reported late Wednesday evening that "track data" from at least 1 million payment cards [...]
On Tuesday, Asian casual dining restaurant chain PF Chang's China Bistro reported that they were investigating a breach of customer's personal and payment data. CEO Rick Federico said that the company, "initiated an investigation with the United States Secret Service and a team of third-party forensics experts to understand the nature and scope of the incident, [...]
By now everyone knows that Target customer credit and debit card data was compromised from November 27-December 15th. This past weekend Target tried to make amends by giving every customer 10% off their total purchase, but according to many news sources that may not have been enough to get shoppers back in the holiday spirit [...]
It was widely reported on Thursday evening that Yahoo had experienced a security breach. There's no way to tell how large the breach was because the only thing that Yahoo is acknowledging is the fact that there was actually a breach. On Thursday, Yahoo reported that email usernames and passwords were stolen but didn't say [...]
Target has apologized profusely for the data breach that has resulted in the compromise of personal and credit card/debit card data from over 40 million Target shoppers. Anyone who shopped at target from Thanksgiving to December 15th and paid with a credit or debit card, fell victim to the heist. Target has done everything a [...]
The Target data heist, that occurred from Thanksgiving weekend until the second week in December is now up to over 110 million customer records. More and more is being revealed about the heist, now being called the biggest retail data heist of all time. It's been reported that the malware gained access to all of [...]
Black Friday ads are going to start surfacing everywhere over the next few days. Toys R Us has already leaked some of their specials as have JC Penney and now Target. Target is targeting as many shoppers as possible but this year they've made their tech/electronics deals swimmingly good. In addition to the deals they [...]
Vicki Nevarde of Mission Beach California was very excited about getting a new iPod for Christmas this year. Her husband, Jim, purchased what he thought was a brand new iPod, from their local Target store. However, when Vicki unwrapped the package and then opened up the sealed iPod box holiday joy quickly became bewilderment. Instead [...]
According to a Reuters report filed on Monday, Google could be facing an $18 million fine. According to the report, Google "could be fined up 15 million euros ($18.6 million) if it does not stop violating the privacy of Internet users in the Netherlands, the Dutch data protection agency said on Monday."Anthony Deutsch, ed. Pravin [...]
A Russian cyber gang that's dubbed themselves "CyberVor" has reportedly stolen billions of internet username and password combinations from both small and large websites in the US and around the world. The term CyberVor comes from Vor which means theft in Russian. The New York Times broke the story on Tuesday citing the discovery from a [...]
Earlier this week, we, and several other tech blogs reported that Snapchat had been given a Christmas gift from security firm Gibson Security. The gift came in the form of a report outlining weaknesses in Snapchat's infrastructure that ate at the core of the app, it's anonymity. Snapchat allows users to send "self destructing" messages [...]
Network security is a major expense for large companies. I must preface this by saying that I know very little about maintaining a secure network. That said, the team from AuditShark has built an incredibly simple auditing tool that can be used to programmatically determine the overall security posture of your servers. In fact it [...]
It's a download it before you can see it weekend if you're into the seedy underworld of torrenting and file sharing as Sony Pictures Entertainment has fallen victim to hackers. Typically, ahead of the Oscar awards, full length motion pictures have leaked onto torrent sites as "directors' or reviewers cuts". Yes for the academy the [...]
In a rather malicious series of events more than 2 million accounts have been compromised by hackers on a variety of different internet websites. According to a new report malware was used to capture the log in information for these users on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Google and at this time there [...]
