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Neiman Marcus breach even worse than first thought - million cards hit over several months
Rob Waugh

Rob Waugh • 24 Jan 2014 • 1 min. read

Malware, Cybercrime

Neiman Marcus breach even worse than first thought - million cards hit over several months

Rob Waugh • 24 Jan 2014 • 1 min. read

Giant snake swallows zookeeper! Facebook scam spreads via offer of gruesome video

Scams

Giant snake swallows zookeeper! Facebook scam spreads via offer of gruesome video

Make it stop! How to cleanse your PC of unwanted adware (and 'badware')

How To

Make it stop! How to cleanse your PC of unwanted adware (and 'badware')

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Malware, Cybercrime

Neiman Marcus breach even worse than first thought - million cards hit over several months

Neiman Marcus breach even worse than first thought - million cards hit over several months

Malware, Cybercrime

Neiman Marcus breach even worse than first thought - million cards hit over several months

Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus has revealed that a breach which led to customer payment cards being used for fraud after shopping in its stores was far worse than first revealed - with 1.1 million cards affected over several months.

Rob Waugh • 24 Jan 2014

Scams

Giant snake swallows zookeeper! Facebook scam spreads via offer of gruesome video

Giant snake swallows zookeeper! Facebook scam spreads via offer of gruesome video

Scams

Giant snake swallows zookeeper! Facebook scam spreads via offer of gruesome video

A video purportedly showing a gigantic snake swallowing a zookeeper is the latest viral scam on Facebook - tricking thousands of users into sharing a video which instead takes victims outside Facebook to a scam site.

Rob Waugh • 21 Jan 2014

How To

Make it stop! How to cleanse your PC of unwanted adware (and 'badware')

Make it stop! How to cleanse your PC of unwanted adware (and 'badware')

How To

Make it stop! How to cleanse your PC of unwanted adware (and 'badware')

‘Adware’, software which delivers unwanted adverts, isn't as scary as some malware, but ESET's analysis of Win32/Boaxxe shows that 'malicious' adware is becoming increasingly hi-tech and stealthy. Our guide will help you clean your machine - and see fewer unwanted ads.

Rob Waugh • 21 Jan 2014

Malware, Scams, Cybercrime

Cash crash ahead? ‘Death’ of Windows XP could leave 95% of world’s ATMs vulnerable

Cash crash ahead? ‘Death’ of Windows XP could leave 95% of world’s ATMs vulnerable

Malware, Scams, Cybercrime

Cash crash ahead? ‘Death’ of Windows XP could leave 95% of world’s ATMs vulnerable

Banks around the world face a looming deadline to upgrade their ATMS - 95% of machines worldwide run Windows XP, which Microsoft will cease to support on April 8. Just 15% of America's ATMs are expected to upgrade by that point.

Rob Waugh • 20 Jan 2014

Malware, Cybercrime

Vietnamese malware : ‘Single post’ enough to trigger spyware attacks against U.S. bloggers, EFF claims

Vietnamese malware : ‘Single post’ enough to trigger spyware attacks against U.S. bloggers, EFF claims

Malware, Cybercrime

Vietnamese malware : ‘Single post’ enough to trigger spyware attacks against U.S. bloggers, EFF claims

A Californian blogger was among victims of a malware attack which targeted critics of the communist state in Vietnam, as well as staff at U.S. privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Rob Waugh • 20 Jan 2014

Cybercrime

Push to replace "hugely insecure" credit card system in U.S after rash of retailer breaches

Push to replace "hugely insecure" credit card system in U.S after rash of retailer breaches

Cybercrime

Push to replace "hugely insecure" credit card system in U.S after rash of retailer breaches

The ‘magnetic stripe’ credit cards used by American banks should be replaced with the more secure chip-and-PIN systems standard in Europe and around the world to prevent further attacks, according to Visa, Mastercard, JP Morgan and government officials.

Rob Waugh • 20 Jan 2014

Malware

Boaxxe adware: 'A good advert sells the product without drawing attention to itself' Part 2

Boaxxe adware: 'A good advert sells the product without drawing attention to itself' Part 2

Malware

Boaxxe adware: 'A good advert sells the product without drawing attention to itself' Part 2

In this post, we examine the complex it fits into a larger click fraud ecosystem, where users can be redirected either automatically, or through search engines browsing, to advertisement websites.

Joan Calvet • 17 Jan 2014

Cybercrime, Business Security

Huge shortage of cyber-defenders as threat levels 'highest since records began', Cisco report warns

Huge shortage of cyber-defenders as threat levels 'highest since records began', Cisco report warns

Cybercrime, Business Security

Huge shortage of cyber-defenders as threat levels 'highest since records began', Cisco report warns

Cisco claims in its report that cybercrime is now a global, professional industry - and there is a worldwide shortage of professionals able to defend against such attacks, with new technologies in malware meaning that there is a shortfall of a million IT professionals.

Rob Waugh • 17 Jan 2014

Malware, Cybercrime

Microsoft offers brief reprieve to Windows XP users - with antimalware updates until July 2015

Microsoft offers brief reprieve to Windows XP users - with antimalware updates until July 2015

Malware, Cybercrime

Microsoft offers brief reprieve to Windows XP users - with antimalware updates until July 2015

The computer giant announced the change of policy in an official blog post in which it said that although XP was no longer “a supported operating system”, security updates would continue until July 2015.

Rob Waugh • 16 Jan 2014