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Inside Target Corp., Days After 2013 Breach

“In February 2014, KrebsOnSecurity was the first to report that investigators had zeroed in on the source of the breach: Fazio Mechanical, a small heating and air conditioning firm in Pennsylvania that...

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Adobe Flash September 2015 Security Update

Adobe has released a new version of Flash, fixing several critical security issues for Flash running on Windows, Macintosh and Linux that could cause the application to crash and could potentially...

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Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead

“An anonymous reader writes with a report at Net Security of researcher Grigorios Fragkos’s much more direct approach to compromising a network: zap the hardware from an unattended ethernet port with a...

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Banks: Card Breach at Hilton Hotel Properties

“Multiple sources in the banking industry say they have traced a pattern of credit card fraud that suggests hackers have compromised point-of-sale registers in gift shops and restaurants at a large...

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With Stolen Cards, Fraudsters Shop to Drop

“One of the key benefits of cashing out stolen cards using a reshipping service is that many luxury consumer goods that are typically bought with stolen cards — gaming consoles, iPads, iPhones and...

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Newly found TrueCrypt flaw allows full system compromise

“The flaws, which were apparently missed in an earlier independent audit of the TrueCrypt source code, could allow attackers to obtain elevated privileges on a system if they have access to a limited...

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What is in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot

“Two-dimensional barcodes and QR codes can hold a great deal of information, and the codes printed on airline boarding passes may allow someone to discover more about you, your future travel plans, and...

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Hacker predicts AMEX card numbers, bypasses chip and PIN

“Brainiac hacker Samy Kamkar has developed a US$10 gadget that can predict and store hundreds of American Express credit cards and use them for wireless transactions, even at non-wireless payment...

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Adobe Flash December 2015 Security Update

Adobe has released a new version of Flash, fixing 77 critical security issues for Flash running on Windows, Macintosh and Linux that could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an...

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Adobe Flash January 2016 Security Update

Adobe has released a new version of Flash, fixing a critical security issue for Flash running on Windows, Macintosh and Linux that could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an...

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Oracle Security Java Update January 2016

Oracle has released a security update to Java that includes fixes for several security vulnerabilities. The updated versions are JDK/JRE 8 Update 71. Updates are available for Windows, Solaris, Linux,...

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Oracle Java JDK/JRE Update 73 for Windows

Oracle has released Java JDK/JRE 8 update 73 for Windows only to fix an issue that could result in a system compromise when Java is installed for the first time on a system. There are several...

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Adobe Flash February 2016 Security Update

Adobe has released a new version of Flash, fixing a critical security issue for Flash running on Windows, Macintosh and Linux that could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an...

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Glibc Vulnerability Discovered

A critical vulnerability in glibc has been discovered by RedHat and Google security researchers. This bug could allow a specially crafted DNS response to cause a buffer overflow and allow remote code...

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New Versions of Adobe Reader

Adobe has released new versions of Adobe Reader XI and Adobe Reader DC on Windows and Mac computers to fix several vulnerabilities that could allow a specially crafted PDF file to take control of a...

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Adobe Flash March 2016 Security Update

Adobe has released a new version of Flash, fixing a critical security issue for Flash running on Windows, Macintosh and Linux that could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an...

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Adobe Flash April 2016 Security Update

Adobe has released a new version of Flash, fixing critical security issues for Flash running on Windows, Macintosh and Linux that could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an...

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Badlock Security Issue in Windows and Samba

A critical security issue in both Samba (Windows services for Unix/Linux) and Windows will be patched tomorrow, April 12th. This issue is being called “Badlock”. There is some information at...

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Oracle Security Java Update April 2016

Oracle has released a security update to Java that includes fixes for several security vulnerabilities. The updated versions are JDK/JRE 8 Update 91. Updates are available for Windows, Solaris, Linux,...

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ImageMagick Critical Vulnerabilities

Critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the image processing software ImageMagick. ImageMagick is commonly used to process images for web services. One of the vulnerabilities can allow remote...

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