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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ).

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Fortinet warns of a spike in attacks against TBK DVR devices

Security Affairs

According to the company, they have over 600,000 Cameras and 50,000 Recorders installed all over the world in multiple sectors such as Banking, Retail, Government, etc. “Another notable spike to mention is IPS detections related to MVPower CCTV DVR models (CVE-2016-20016) also known as JAWS webserver RCE.

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

Krebs on Security

In September 2016, MrMurza sent a message to all iSocks users saying the service would soon be phased out in favor of Faceless, and that existing iSocks users could register at Faceless for free if they did so quickly — before Faceless began charging new users registration fees between $50 and $100. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com.

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Breach at Cloud Solution Provider PCM Inc.

Krebs on Security

based PCM [ NASDAQ:PCMI ] is a provider of technology products, services and solutions to businesses as well as state and federal governments. -based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company’s clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. El Segundo, Calif. earlier this year.

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Hacker who helped the ISIS will remain in US prison

Security Affairs

government and military personnel will remain in a federal prison. Ardit Ferizi , aka Th3Dir3ctorY, is the hacker that supported the ISIS organization by handing over data for 1,351 US government and military personnel. Ferizi is the first man charged with cyber terrorism that was extradited to the US early 2016.

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MY TAKE: DigiCert and Oracle partner to extend digital trust and scalable infrastructure globally

The Last Watchdog

Oracle launched OCI in October 2016. Honoring data sovereignty Name any business use case: banking, retail, healthcare, government, military, entertainment, elections. Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup. Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010.

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Hidden Cobra APT used the new ATM cash-out scheme FASTCash to hit banks worldwide

Security Affairs

The group is considered responsible for the massive WannaCry ransomware attack, a string of SWIFT attacks in 2016, and the Sony Pictures hack. According to the report published by the US-CERT, Hidden Cobra has been using the FASTCash technique since at least 2016, the APT group targets bank infrastructure to cash out ATMs.

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