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FastPOS malware instantly delivers stolen credit card data

06

Jun

2016

Cyber-criminals must be feeling the need for speed by brewing up a new point-of-sale (POS) malware family called FastPOS that is much faster at snatching and disseminating stolen credit card information. FastPOS was discovered by Trend Micro researchers, who have also given it the fancier moniker TSPY_FASTPOS.SMZTDA, differs from other POS malware by immediately transferring […]

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Google employees’ details breached in vendor’s email bungle

11

May

2016

Google employees’ personal details have been spilled by a vendor who handles the company’s benefits management. Somebody working at the third-party vendor accidentally breached the employees’ information by sending an email with sensitive data to a benefits manager at another company. On Monday, Google sent a data breach notice to an undisclosed number of employees. […]

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US passport and visa database open to intrusion?

05

Apr

2016

The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD), which contains over 290 million passport-related records, 184 million visa records, and 25 million records on US citizens living abroad, has been found to be vulnerable to cyber attack and possibly data tampering. The discovery was the result of an internal review of the US State Department’s cyber defenses performed […]

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