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Scammers are draining payment cards linked with Starbucks customer accounts

Scammers are actively targeting Starbucks customers and syphoning money from the credit or debit card they have tied to their Starbucks accounts.In order to perform this …

May Patch Tuesday delivers critical and important fixes

In this month’s Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released 13 security bulletins addressing 48 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office, and Silverlight.Over half …

Former employee claims cybersecurity firm extorted clients

Tiversa, a privately held cybersecurity company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been accused by a former employee of hacking and then trying to effectively extort money …

US Passport Agency contractor stole applicants’ data to steal their identities

Three women from Houston, Texas, stand accused of engaging in an identity theft scheme in which one of them, a contract employee of the Department of State Passport Agency, …

Cyber extortionists are hitting hedge funds

Hedge funds are increasingly targeted by cyber extortionists, John Carlin, US Assistant Attorney General for National Security, has warned the audience at the SALT hedge fund …

Angler EK pushes unnamed ransomware

“Malware distribution campaigns based using the popular Angler exploit kit continue delivering different types of ransomware. Last week, it was AlphaCrypt, which …

Tor Cloud project reaches the end of the line

The Tor Project has discontinued the Tor Cloud project due to a lack of dedicated software developers and maintainers.The Tor Cloud project was started in late 2011, with the …

Flawed crypto endangers millions of smart grid devices

The cryptography used in the Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP), one of the most widely used smart meter and smart grid device networking standards, can be easily cracked, …

Breaking Bad-themed ransomware targeting users

“A new type of ransomware is targeting Australian users, and its creators have decided to have some fun and express their love for the popular US TV show Breaking Bad …

Court declares NSA’s domestic phone metadata collection program illegal

It took nearly two years, but three judges of a federal appeals court in New York have unanimously ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata associated with phone …

To what extent companies digitally track our daily lives?

Do you know how digitally collected information uncovers things about you which you would rather remained private? We’re already living in the age of Big Data, and are …

GPU-based malware is real, say developers of PoC rootkit and keylogger

“Two yet unfinished coding projects by a group of developers that call themselves Team Jellyfish have received unexpected attention due to an Ars Technica article …

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