Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Magecart hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. The Magecart cybercrime group is back, this time the hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. behind the Ticketmaster and British Airways data breaches has now victimized popular computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Electronics retail giant MediaMarkt was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany. Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Aaron’s”) stemming from allegations that it knowingly assisted its franchisees in spying on consumers. Specifically, the FTC alleged that Aaron’s facilitated its franchisees’ installation and use of software on computers rented to consumers that surreptitiously tracked consumers’ locations, took photographs of consumers in their homes, and recorded consumers’ keystrokes in order to capture login credentials for email, financial and social media accounts.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer discloses a security breach suffered by its after-sales service systems in India after an isolated attack. Bad news for the Taiwanese electronics technology giant Acer, it disclosed a second security breach this year.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. Crypto mining causes one’s computer to draw more power, which can increase one’s overall electricity costs.

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IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. In case you missed it, you may also be interested in our first quarterly review of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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Reltio

JUNE 20, 2019

I got good grades in mathematics at school but it was an evening class in secondary school that I took in what was then called EDP (Electronic Data Processing) that got me started. We didn’t even have a computer at that school so the whole class was about things drawn on the blackboard. Then one day we had a trip to a larger college that actually had computers and I was hooked! I was educated in computer engineering but my first job was on the business side.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Office furniture company Steelcase was hit by Ryuk ransomware attack that forced it to shut down its network to avoid the malware from spreading. It is the largest office furniture manufacturer in the world.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2022

The experiment was done from a different computer and Internet address than the one that created the original account years ago. It did so without first confirming that new email address could respond to messages, or that the previous email address approved the change.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. As the infrastructure changes, the adversaries change along with it to take the easiest path to data.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 26, 2021

federal investigators today raided the Florida offices of PAX Technology , a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. What’s more, global computer chip shortages are causing lengthy delays in procuring new electronics.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a boon to cybercriminals: With unprecedented numbers of people working from home and anxious for news about the virus outbreak, it’s hard to imagine a more target-rich environment for phishers, scammers and malware purveyors.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

” A SIM card is the tiny, removable chip in a mobile device that allows it to connect to the provider’s network. Officers responding to the report searched the residence and found multiple cell phones and SIM cards, as well as files on the kid’s computer that included “an extensive list of names and phone numbers of people from around the world.”

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Info Source

JANUARY 28, 2021

5, 2021 – Epson, the best-selling retail scanner brand in North America, 1 is continuing its commitment to meeting the needs of small businesses and consumers with the expansion of its document scanner portfolio. Retail Tracking Service, U.S. &

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Google Android team found high severity flaw in Honeywell Android-based handheld computers. Amazon is investigating allegations that its staff is selling customer data. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Organizations in the finance sector manage trillions of dollars and maintain very valuable and vital electronic data, including bank account, credit card, and transaction information as well as sensitive data related to estates, wills, titles, and other matters.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2019

The SilentTrinity malware can take control over an infected computer, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The phishing messages posed as delivery notifications from the Croatian postal or other retail services, they included a Microsoft Excel saved in the old.xls format and compiled the previous day. The experts aimed at combining flexibility with the advantages of a well-known post-exploitation PowerShell framework by writing it in Python.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan between 2015 and 2016, most of the victims were in the United States and Europe. The GozNym has been seen targeting banking institutions, credit unions, and retail banks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. Imagine a world where the retail value of your car actually grows over time – that’s now becoming a reality.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In this Spotlight Podcast, we speak with David Brumley, the Chief Executive Officer at the security firm ForAllSecure * and a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. It has also made some smaller number of those people fantastically rich.

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The Texas Record

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Digitize your old home videos before it’s too late! If you don’t have one, you might look around at thrift stores, yard sales, and other outlets that may have old electronics. However, DVDs will work as a bridge to get your video into a computer. DV) to connect to your computer.

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ARMA International

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The program must evolve with the industry as new challenges and opportunities emerge, and it requires constant attention and program adjustments. Non-compliance no longer results in just fines and bad publicity; it can take firms out of business. The major categories of financial institutions include central banks, retail and commercial banks, investment banks, investment companies, brokerage firms, internet banks, credit unions, and savings and loans associations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The domain was protected by a Panama company to hide its real registrant and this condition rang a warning bell on the suspected email so that it required a manual analysis in order to investigate its attachment. Interesting to note that the document had no evidences on VT (during the analysis time), so it could be a revamped threat or a totally new one! It was nice to read the obfuscated code since the variable names where actually thematically chosen per function.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The Computers in our Pockets. “In 2002 I had a phone, but I had a separate piece of plastic and metal that was a camera and another piece of plastic and metal that had my music on it.” Problems like cyber crime were predictable outgrowths of growing connectivity and convenience – from electronic banking to online retail, Angel Grant of RSA told me. Its harder to believe “it won’t happen to me,” Grant argues.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Following the technology history theme of some of my recent posts ( here and over on CMSWire ), I decided to look back at the history of email to see how strong its claim to the electronic communication 'crown' really is. In the early days of business email, it faced a number of its own challenges that impacted its adoption - this included: Interoperability between different email systems. Its all about the network.

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ChiefTech

OCTOBER 14, 2008

This Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) post about meeting the needs of hard-to-reach staff reminded me of a kiosk system that was developed on top of an electronic document and records management system at Illawarra Coal (part of BHPB Billiton ) – I was part of the team that helped to implement the system and came up with the conceptual design of the intranet publishing architecture from this system.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. It has also made some smaller number of those people fantastically rich. When it comes to what can you do today? Think about it. It's testable.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. It has also made some smaller number of those people fantastically rich. Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. When it comes to what can you do today? Think about it.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Advances in the use of polymers revolutionized everything from food packaging to electronics, telecommunication and medicine. It has also made some smaller number of those people fantastically rich. Machine learning algorithms are already being used in transportation to ease road congestion, in healthcare to spot medical errors and improve patient care and in retail to improve the customer shopping experience. When it comes to what can you do today? Think about it.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What role might the security industry have in identifying or even stopping it? It's natural. I mean, we've all experienced it, and usually it just lasts a moment, as when someone across the street stares before they move on. It doesn't take leet hacking skills.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 17, 2009

The EU Telecoms Commissioner, Viviane Reding, has called upon the UK to change its national laws to ensure the confidentiality of communications by prohibiting interception and surveillance without the user’s consent. ’s advertising tracker system which allows the company to track the identity and web habits of individual computers by tracing their unique Internet Protocol addresses.

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