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Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

Krebs on Security

Questions about who stole tax and financial data on roughly three quarters of all South Carolina residents came to the fore last week at the confirmation hearing of Mark Keel , who was appointed in 2011 by Gov. State officials said they found out about the hack from federal law enforcement on October 10, 2012. ” On Oct.

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Volkswagen discloses data breach, 3.3 million customers impacted

Security Affairs

Volkswagen America discloses a data breach at a third-party vendor that exposed the personal details of more than 3.3 Volkswagen America discloses a data breach suffered by a third-party vendor used by the car vendor for sales and marketing purposes. SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak). million of its customers.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. KrebsOnSecurity reports that hackers who specialize in filing fake police requests for subscriber data gained access to a U.S.

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Threat actors using FrameworkPOS malware in POS attacks

Security Affairs

Security experts at Morphisec observed a wave of attacks against point-of-sale (PoS) thin clients using card data scraping malware and the Cobalt Strike beacon. Over the past 8-10 weeks, security experts at Morphisec observed multiple sophisticated attacks targeting PoS thin clients worldwide. Pierluigi Paganini.

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La Porte County finally opted to pay $130,000 Ransom

Security Affairs

Now La Porte County decided to pay $130,000 to recover data on systems infected with the ransomware. According to WSBT, La Porte County’s systems were infected with a variant of the Ryuk ransomware, the same malware that infected computers at City of Lake City on June 10. ” reported the WSBT. Pierluigi Paganini.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. I don't just mean at the crazy rich end of the scale (4 of the world's top 10 richest people did it in tech - Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg and Ellison), but at all levels of our profession. Intro: This Industry Rocks!

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Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Security Affairs

The threat actor mainly targets insurance, consulting, and construction companies. The architectural features of 5G (compared to 1/2/3/4G), such as superfast data transfers and other advantages of the new technology, are mainly implemented using software rather than hardware platforms. Bank card compromise, carding, and data leaks.

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