Friday, January 17th, 2014
A security breach that yielded Neiman Marcus customers' payment card information went undetected for nearly six months, according a report in the New York Times.
The upscale department store revealed Friday that hackers may have stolen customers' credit and debit card information during an intrusion it detected in mid-December, but sources told the Times ...
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Friday, January 17th, 2014
Security researchers at Proofpoint have uncovered the very first wide-scale hack that involved television sets and at least one refrigerator.
Yes, a fridge.
This is being hailed as the first home appliance "botnet" and the first cyberattack from the Internet of Things.
A botnet is a series of computers that seem to be ...
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Thursday, January 16th, 2014
Blackphone is a new venture from the collaboration of US Silent Circle and Spain's Geeksphone. Its website is registered in privacy-conscious Switzerland. Most notably it includes the renowned cryptographers Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas, the originators of PGP. As yet there is little technical information beyond a brief video on the Blackphone website – ...
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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013
A paper released earlier this month by a group of security researchers has outlined the technical details behind a potential Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) program likely used by the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and their American counterpart, the NSA.
Moreover, the researcher's say that one of the largest telecom providers ...
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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
A few weeks ago, security researcher Dragos Ruiu publicly claimed that computers in his lab were being infected by some sort of stealthy over-the-air transmission method that relied on ordinary speakers and microphones to transmit the malware payload from system to system. Ruiu nicknamed this bug “badBIOS,” and research into ...
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