Criminals in Mexico have added endoscopes to their ATM-attack toolkits, warns cash-machine manufacturer NCR. Pairing endoscopes with "black box" attacks can enable criminals to defeat sensors and instruct an ATM to dispense all of its cash.
If an NSA analyst took malware home and it was stolen from his home PC by a foreign intelligence agency, who are you going to blame? As the U.S. government's campaign against Kaspersky Lab intensifies, here are 10 facts, clarifications and likelihoods to keep in mind.
Hackers working for Russia gained access to the home computer of an NSA employee in 2015, pilfering highly classified material and spying code. U.S. officials claim Kaspersky Lab's software helped the hackers, but numerous questions remain unanswered. We round up the issues in play.
Equifax ex-CEO Richard Smith asserts that a single employee's failure to heed a security alert led to the company failing to install a patch on a critical system, which was subsequently exploited by hackers. But his claim calls into question whether poor patch practices and management failures were the norm.
At the first of three Congressional hearings slated this week to examine the Equifax mega-breach, one Republican said of the company's delay in detecting the breach: "It's like the guards of Fort Knox forgot to lock the doors and failed to notice the thieves were emptying the vaults."
Upscale supermarket chain Whole Foods Market says it's investigating a payment card breach affecting dozens of taprooms and an unspecific number of restaurants located inside its stores. But it says no point-of-sale systems at checkout lanes were compromised.
French competitive beard-grower Gal Vallerius was arrested in Atlanta while traveling to the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Texas on charges that he's a darknet marketplace administrator and vendor of controlled substances known as "OxyMonster."
Attackers are increasingly hacking into banks' networks to gain access to the IT infrastructure connected to their ATMs, security experts warn. Attackers push malware onto ATMs that's designed to allow money mules to "jackpot" or "cash out" the machines, then delete itself.
Fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In is investigating a potential breach involving customers' payment card data. Its alert follows a large, potentially related batch of stolen card data appearing for sale on a cybercrime "carder" marketplace called "Joker's Stash."
It's the age of "open banking," and that means changes for banking institutions and their customers - as well as for the fraudsters. Shaked Vax of IBM Security Trusteer talks about new vulnerabilities and anti-fraud strategies.
Researchers investigating the CCleaner malware outbreak have had a lucky break: The attackers' backup server shows that they pushed secondary malware onto systems at Intel, VMware, Fujitsu and Asus, among others, as part of what appears to be a very targeted attack campaign.
Dharshan Shanthamurthy, CEO of SISA Information Security Worldwide, discusses new ways of assessing the risks involved in online and mobile payments to help reduce fraud.
For the internet of things to become a business enabler in India, security considerations must be adequately addressed. So regulators have mandated that organizations take appropriate security steps.
All the key players of a company's management group, including the CISO, need to be involved in the decision about whether to invest in cyber insurance, says Greg Markell of Ridge Canada Cyber Solutions, a cyber insurer.
Summit Credit Union of Wisconsin is seeking class-action status for a lawsuit against credit bureau Equifax. The credit union contends it will have to bear the fraud costs resulting from Equifax exposing a massive amount of U.S. consumer data in one of the worst data breaches ever seen.
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