Home Depot released a press release today providing some more details on the recent and until now ongoing credit card breach. The good news is that the breach primarily affected self checkout stations between April and September of this year. Home Depot likely has a pretty good security department which means that this malware must […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is your business prepared for a cyber breach? Besides the cost, there is the potential for damage to your reputation , loss of customers, distraction while dealing with it and the potential for lawsuits, which can go on for years. An article at AZCentral.com talks about the subject and the fact that hundreds of small […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an article in Business Insider, Sharron Laverne Parrish, Jr. scammed Apple 42 times with a very simple scam. He presented debit cards on closed accounts for purchases – apparently in the thousands of dollars each. When the card was declined, he offered to call his bank and handle it. Except he was not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, this is for real. Russian entrepreneurs have figured out there is a market for this. According to an article in ITWorld, there is a business in hacking iCloud accounts. Get the password by some means and then using EPPB from Elcomsoft, the hacker can grab just pictures or contact or messages – just what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As you are probably aware by now, somewhere upwards of 100 celebrities have had private pictures of themselves posted on 4Chan and many other sites yesterday. Earlier today Reddit was going crazy with comments and pictures. Some of the celebrities who have confirmed that the posted pictures are of them include Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After my last post, a new article came out about the Backoff malware. The article, quoting the US Department of Homeland Security, said that over a thousand small, medium and enterprise U.S. businesses have been compromised by the Backoff malware package. Backoff is fairly new – first seen last year – and scrapes the memory […]
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