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Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:12:16 +0000
In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from Wawa customers is being sold at one of the underground’s most popular crime shops, which claims to have 30 million records to peddle from a new nationwide breach.
Read moreSeattle tries out mobile voting
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800
About 1.2 million Seattle area voters will be able to use their smartphone, laptop or a computer at their local library to vote in a current election this year.
This will be the first-time online voting is available to all eligible registered voters of a district, according to a foundation behind the initiative.
The King Conservation District in Washington State is the third region in the U.S. to partner with the non-profit Tusk Philanthropies on a national effort to expand mobile voting, and Washington is the fifth state to pilot mobile voting in general. The King Conservation District is a state environmental agency that includes Seattle and 33 other cities, but it is separate from the King County Elections agency and operates under a different budget.
Russian Cybercrime Boss Burkov Pleads Guilty
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:21:46 +0000
Aleksei Burkov, an ultra-connected Russian hacker once described as “an asset of supreme importance” to Moscow, has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to running a site that sold stolen payment card data and to administering a highly secretive crime forum that counted among its members some of the most elite Russian cybercrooks.
Read moreWhy manipulation campaigns are the biggest threat facing the 2020 election
Credit to Author: Theresa Payton| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:50:00 -0800
This era of political espionage is rooted in manipulative ads, fake news articles and other forms of digital content. It's one of the nation’s greatest threats, especially as we approach the 2020 presidential election.
Read moreGoogle and Microsoft have gone too far
Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:55:00 -0800
Google and Microsoft are using dark pattern design to trick or force users to do things they never intended. Is it time to switch to more ethical browsers? (We list 10 alternatives.)
Read moreGet the January 2020 Patch Tuesday patches installed
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:27:00 -0800
This month has seen a whole lotta hand waving and sky-is-falling-caliber rhetoric, but the reality is much more prosaic. If you aren’t running a major network (and thus aren’t susceptible to the imminent problems with Remote Desktop Gateway, the Citrix network bugs or the whopping 334 patches in Oracle), there’s been little reason to install this month’s updates.
Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:37:11 +0000
If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their domains from being hijacked. Here’s the story of one recent victim who was doing almost everything possible to avoid such a situation and still had a key domain stolen by scammers.
Read moreMicrosoft Patch Alert: January 2020 patches look relatively benign
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 07:17:00 -0800
The big patching problems this month fell at the feet of admins who had to deal with an unholy mess of pressing exposures: Fixing the holes in Microsoft’s RD Gateway (CVE-2020-0610; see Susan Bradley’s Patch Watch, paywalled); dealing with Server 2008 R2 systems that booted to Recovery mode after installing the January patches; scrambling to pick up after breaches in Citrix networking products; or the 334 Oracle security patches. They all took a toll.
Apple Addresses iPhone 11 Location Privacy Concern
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:14:48 +0000
Apple is rolling out a new update to its iOS operating system that addresses the location privacy issue on iPhone 11 devices that was first detailed here last month.
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