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PoS malware hits food kiosks, steals payment card info

PoS malware can lurk in the most unexpected of places, and some have recently been found in the payment kiosks by US-based vendor Avanti, stealing payment card information. …

person
Operators of decade-old Malware-as-a-Service outfit charged

As Crackas With Attitude hacker “Incursio” got handed a 2-year prison sentence for gaining unauthorized access to government computers and online accounts of a …

Facebook
Facebook moderators can inspect private messages of users suspected of terror links

Pressured by European governments, Facebook, Twitter and Google are trying to tackle the extremist propaganda and recruitment on their social networks and sites. It’s an …

airport security
DHS to enforce extra security checks instead of airplane carry-on laptop ban

Travelers from all over the world who plan to fly into the US will be subjected to more rigorous security checks before being allowed to board the plane, the Department of …

Illegal Bitcoin exchange operator gets 66-month prison sentence

Anthony Murgio, the operator of the Coin.mx Bitcoin exchange, has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for processing over $10 million in illegal Bitcoin transactions. He has …

Anthem
Anthem ready to pay $115 million to settle data breach lawsuit

US health insurer Anthem has agreed to pay $115 million to settle a class-action suit mounted in the wake of the massive data breach it suffered in late 2014/early 2015. The …

BEC scams
Internet crime: The continuing rise of the BEC scam

Through its website, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) accepts complaints about Internet-facilitated criminal activity, and forwards them to the …

laptop crime
Email scammers swindle US State Supreme Court judge out of $1 milion

If often happens to less prominent individuals, but this time it happened to a US State Supreme Court judge: scammers have managed trick her into wiring the money meant for …

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Largest US voter data leak shines light on many problems

If US citizens weren’t convinced by now that they have long lost control of their data, the fact is more than obvious after a misconfigured database containing 198 …

money
Average data breach cost declines 10% globally

The average cost of a data breach is $3.62 million globally, a 10 percent decline from 2016 results. This is the first time since the global study was created that there has …

vote
Sensitive data on 198 million US voters exposed online

For at least two whole weeks, a database containing information on 198 million potential US voters – more than half of the American population – lay exposed on the …

biohazard
US restaurants targeted with fileless malware

Morphisec researchers have spotted another attack campaign using fileless malware that is believed to be mounted by the infamous FIN7 hacking group. The goal of the campaign …

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