A third of us went fishing, another third went to Northern Invasion in Somerset (you know who you are) To the rest of us who spent Mother’s Day with our mother or the mother of our children, we are not off the hook. See below – from Pinterest.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.We have written and spoken frequently about web site hijacking attacks. Here is an article that shows that EVERY website is a target of automated attacks. Every ...
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If you were hit with credit card fraud this year, you are not alone. 15% of Americans surveyed by CompareCards, a LendingTree subsidiary, reported they had been victimized in 2017. Fraud can happen without losing your card. While card companies and banks are more alert to fraud than ever, cardholders are often the first to discover the fraudulent use of their card.
The two main types of card ...
Continue Reading →The EMV chip has make credit card fraud harder, but credit card fraudsters are taking an interesting new twist. By intercepting new credit cards in the mail, they are stealing the new chip off the card and replacing it with an old, dead chip, before resealing the envelope and sending it on to the recipient. The new chip is glued on to a fake card. When the recipient activates the new card, the stolen chip is activated, and the theives ...
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Why are retailers in the US still stuck in the 20th century when it comes to credit card processing? Why are so many stores still using outdated magnetic stripe card readers, when EMV or “chip” card readers are available? Who is at fault? Is it the store or the credit card processing company?
Stores were supposed to have the EMV card readers installed ...
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Because I live in Minnesota and grew up here, I occasionally find a story with local interest. When I first read the headline for this story in an email from the Smithsonian, I assumed they were going to be talking about the urban experiment that was Jonathan, southwest of the Twin Cities near Chanhassen.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.This entry was posted in WordPress Security on May 2, 2018 by Mark Maunder
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We have talked about new Office document exploits that don’t require macros to run. Here is a new one with more twists and turns than a mountain road. Trustwave has reported instances of a new attack that starts as a spam or phishing email with a Word document (.DOCX) attachment. Open the Word document and it will call out for another document download, this one in Rich ...
Tomorrow is World Password Day. WPD is observed on the first Thursday of May. So today would be a great day to take your passwords out to Valley Fair or a movie – wait a minute, that’s silly. You only can do that if you have all your password in a spiral notebook.
Password spraying is a new password exploit that is being used effectively against larger networks. It’s become enough of a problem to merit an alert from US-CERT entitled TA18-086A: Brute Force Attacks Conducted by Cyber Actors. Here’s how it works.
Typically, in a traditional brute-force password attack, the password cracking software runs a long list of every possible password against a system. ...
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