Saturday, February 15th, 2014
Cyber criminals used data from previous high-profile hacks to break into thousands of Tesco.com accounts.
In total, 2,239 customers are said to have been affected by the incident, which first came to light on Thursday night, as reported by the BBC when it was contacted by some of the affected customers.
Customers reported seeing ...
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Thursday, February 6th, 2014
Hacking group NullCrew FTS declared today that it had exploited a security flaw in Comcast’s Zimbra webmail server. It’s believed that the group used what is known as a LFI exploit or local file inclusion vulnerability to obtain usernames and passwords of Comcast ISP users.
The hacking group claims it used ...
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Tuesday, February 4th, 2014
Lodgers at Holiday Inns, Marriott and Renaissance hotels may have had their payment card details compromised following a new disclosure on Monday of suspected point-of-sale device attacks.
White Lodging Services, a hotel management company, warned in a news release it suspects point-of-sale systems at restaurants and lounges on 14 of its properties were ...
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Saturday, January 25th, 2014
Multiple sources in the banking industry say they are tracking a pattern of fraud on cards that were all recently used at Michaels Stores Inc., an Irving, Texas-based arts-and-crafts retailer that maintains more than 1,250 stores across the United States.
On Friday morning, I put a call in to SPM Communications, the public ...
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Monday, January 20th, 2014
SplashData has announced its annual list of the 25 most common passwords found on the Internet. For the first time since SplashData began compiling its annual list, "password" has lost its title as the most common and therefore Worst Password, and two-time runner-up "123456" took the dubious honor. "Password" fell ...
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