The Magecart malware has stolen credit card information from such high profile web sites as British Airways, Ticketmaster and Newegg. The malware works by inserting a little bit of code – usually Javascript – into the page(s) of a web site that collects credit card information. When a customer visits that page the malware collects […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am not sure who we should be more concerned about – us or them. The Georgia Secretary of State, who is also running for Governor, has accused the Democrats of unsuccessfully trying to hack the state’s election system and referred it to the FBI. Propublica is reporting that Kemp, the Secretary of State, quietly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t know about you, but I am not inclined to believe that my cell phone provider is the best company to protect my security, but they disagree. And who knows – maybe it could work. The basis of Project Verify is that each cell phone has a unique fingerprint that allows the carrier to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes even if you try to be safe, it doesn’t work the way you want. Fiserv provides banking software to over a third of all banks. They have 24,000 employees and almost $6 billion in revenue. Many of its client banks are smaller banks and credit unions, but some large banks use Fiserv too. Apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lack of Vendor Cyber Risk Management Hurts over 750 Banks TCM Bank, a company that helps hundreds of small banks issue credit cards had a problem with their third party vendor – the bank’s fourth party vendor risk. The small bank wants to issue credit cards so they hire TCM and TCM hires someone else […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco has released an advisory that a half million consumer and small business routers and growing have been infected with malware dubbed VPNFilter. The malware was detected infecting routers from: Linksys MikroTik Netgear TP-Link and QNap storage devices The researchers have not figured out a test that a consumer or small business can use to […]
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