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Acer suffered the second security breach in a few months

Security Affairs

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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber security).

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FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology

Krebs on Security

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. has more than 60 million point-of-sale terminals in use throughout 120 countries. organizations. Source: WOKV.com. Earlier today, Jacksonville, Fla.

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Ransomware attack disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany

Security Affairs

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. The sales online were not affected by the security incident.

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Future of Payments Security. 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. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. Securing digital transactions.

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How Cybercriminals are Weathering COVID-19

Krebs on Security

Most online retailers years ago stopped shipping to regions of the world most frequently associated with credit card fraud, including Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Russia. ” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed. “Reshipping is way up right now, but there are some complications,” he said.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

We logged 134 security incidents in December, which accounted for 148,354,955 breached records. What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded? That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. aw (unknown). Ransomware.

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Cross-Post from Out of the Stacks: How to Convert Your Home Movie Tapes to Digital

The Texas Record

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. If you have a VCR and are fortunate to still have a MiniDV camcorder, you can use the camcorder to pass the VCR video to your computer.