Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
One of the unfortunate realities of the Internet today is a phenomenon known in security circles as “credential dumps”—the posting of lists of usernames and passwords on the web. We’re always monitoring for these dumps so we can respond quickly to protect our users. This week, we identified several lists ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
Multiple banks say they are seeing evidence that Home Depot stores may be the source of a massive new batch of stolen credit and debit cards that went on sale this morning in the cybercrime underground. Home Depot says that it is working with banks and law enforcement agencies to ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
University researchers have built an Android app that secretly snatches valuable personal data from other mobile apps, such as webmail, shopping and online banking.
The app, demonstrated Friday at the USENIX Security Conference in San Diego, stole login credentials from Google Gmail, a social security number from an H&R Block app, ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
The UPS Store, Inc. recently received a government bulletin regarding a broad-based malware intrusion targeting retailers in the United States. The UPS Store takes seriously its responsibility to protect customer information and immediately launched an internal review, implemented system enhancements and engaged an IT security firm.
An assessment by The UPS ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2014
Researchers have discovered click fraud malware designed to “hide in plain sight” and evade traditional security tools by embedding data into an image file.
Lurk is a downloader which uses digital steganography – the art of hiding information in images, audio or video files, according to a Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat ...
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