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Kmart confirms month-old data breach, payment card data stolen

First via a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and then via a press release, Sears Holding Corporation has confirmed a month-old breach that affected POS …

HP to revoke certificate that was used to signed malware

HP has announced to its customers that it will soon revoke a specific private digital certificate that they used to sign some software components that ship with some of its …

The number of JPMorgan hackers’ targets rises

The distressing news that the JPMorgan Chase breach resulted in the compromise of data of some 76 million households and 7 million small businesses may be soon followed by …

Backoff POS malware found at nearly 400 Dairy Queen locations

POS systems at nearly 400 franchises of the International Dairy Queen fast food chain have been infected with Backoff malware, the company has reported on Thursday. The …

Google reports on “right to be forgotten” requests

Nearly a month after the release of the latest Google Transparency Report, which showed that government demands for user information have risen 150% over the last five years, …

Aggressive Selfmite SMS worm variant goes global

The Selfmite Android SMS worm is back, and this new version is both more dangerous and more widespread that the initial one. AdaptiveMobile researchers, who discovered both …

How Shellshock can be exploited over DHCP

Attacks exploiting the Shellshock vulnerability (actually, vulnerabilities) are popping up daily, but while Shellshock attacks on web apps have been the most documented and …

Bugzilla bug that could reveal other software flaws has been patched

A critical security vulnerability in the popular online bug-tracking-and-testing tool Bugzilla has been patched, and users are advised to update to new releases as soon as …

Windows 10 will not come with built-in keylogging capabilities

In case you missed it, a big fuss has been raised about the keylogging and other “spying” capabilities of the recently released Technical Preview version of …

Yahoo says its servers weren’t Shellshocked

After researcher Jonathan Hall’s claims that a group of hackers has been exploiting the Bash Shellshock vulnerability to compromise a number of servers belonging to …

Android browser SOP bypass bug: Who’s affected, and what to do?

A security researcher has recently discovered not just one but two vulnerabilities in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) browser that could allow attackers to bypass the …

Apple updates XProtect to kill iWorm botnet threat

Apple has released an update for its XProtect anti-malware system which makes it detect three different version of the iWorm OS backdoor malware discovered last week by AV …

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