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Home Depot breached, carders selling stolen payment card info

The Home Depot, a popular American home improvement and construction retailer that boasts of 2,200 stores in the US and 287 abroad, has apparently suffered a data breach that …

Beware of scams following the celebrity nude photo news

As the FBI confirmed that they are investigating the leaking of nude photographs (some real, some fake) of a hundred female celebrities, the hunt for the person(s?) behind it …

Expert international cybercrime taskforce tackles online crime

Hosted at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), which is being piloted for six months, will coordinate international …

JPMorgan attackers altered bank records

The number of US banks that have apparently been targeted and breached by hackers is slowly rising, as newer reports say that seven financial organizations have been hit. …

Phishers targeting crypto currency and retail sites

Online payment services and crypto-currency sites are being targeted by phishers. The number of phishing attacks remained high, and the second quarter of 2014 saw the …

Beware of malicious “Windows 9 free download” offers

The developer preview release of Windows 9 is scheduled to be publicly available this September, and cyber crooks have already started peddling bogus versions of the announced …

50 confirmed, possibly more Norwegian oil companies hacked

50 Norwegian oil and energy companies have been hacked, and 250 more have been warned to check their networks and systems for evidence of a breach, The Local reports. Among …

Tool restores SynoLocker-encrypted files

Security company F-Secure has created a tool that could help SynoLocker victims get their files back, but it only works if they have received – bought – the …

Over 1,000 businesses compromised with Backoff malware

The US Department of Homeland Security has once again issued a warning to businesses about the Backoff malware. “The DHS encourages organizations, regardless of size, to …

Identity theft vendor sentenced to 100 months in prison

A northern California man who served as an information and document vendor in the identity theft and credit card fraud ring known as Carder.su was sentenced yesterday to serve …

Bitcoin-themed phishing campaign creates quite a stir

The latest massive email phishing campaign targeting Bitcoin users has had an unexpected click-through rate. The spam campaign came in two waves, and of the 12,000 messages …

Why you’re not as secure as you think you are

There are 2.4 billion Internet users in the world today. Many of these users, in good faith, leave their personal online security up to their service providers. Sadly, time …

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