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Organized Crime Hackers Hit OneStopParking.com
According to KrebsOnSecurity, OneStopParKing has been breached. Many banks reported to Brian that cards with fraudulent charges have all been used at OneStopParking.com. The stolen card data that bank sources traced back are among hundreds or thousands that went on … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, breach, Brian Krebs, credit card, home depot, target
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Staples Follow-Up
Back in October, it was announced that banks were investigating Staples based on fraudulent card activity. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail stores. Upon … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, credit card, hacked, malware, staples
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Honeywell Point-of-Sale Systems Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Honeywell OPOS Suite. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, credit card, honeywell, overflow, point-of-sale, vulnerability
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Hypercom of Scottsdale, Arizona’s Equinox Payments
Equinox is working with customers, distributors, and channel partners to replace the certificates to return terminals to an operational state after all payment terminals bricked themselves. Why? Because cryptographic certificates used in the devices has expired en masse. Many merchants … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, Arizona, Brian Krebs, business resiliency, certificate management, credit card, equinox, hypercom, Scottsdale
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Hey Bebe!
According to an article written by Brian Krebs, it sounds like Bebe is undergoing a credit/debit breach investigation. The data copied from the magnetic stripe on the backs of credit cards, which bad-guys can use to write to blank cards … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, Bebe, breach, Brian Krebs, credit card, debit, hackers, home depot, malware, Michaels, Neiman Marcus, Security Awareness, target
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There is no CyberSecurity?
60 Minutes has a video on cyberthieves stealing your credit card information. This is a must watch for everybody who has a debit/credit card; a must watch for every merchant and service provider. The 15 minute video talks of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 60 Minutes, Brian Krebs, credit card, cybercrime, FireEye, Security Awareness
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Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard version 3.0
I’ve been doing some extensive studying for the PCI DSS v 3 and there is a vast improvement on the requirements. There are 6 goals of PCI Remove sensitive authentication data and limit data retention. This milestone targets a key … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, credit card, data security standards, guidance, help, PCI Compliance, requirements, security standards council
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Contactless Payment Cards Will Approve Foreign Currency Transactions of up to 999,999.99
“With just a mobile phone we created a POS terminal that could read a card through a wallet,” explains Martin Emms, from the NewCastle University research team during the 2014 ACM CCS Conference held in the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, contactless payment card, credit card, foreign currency, PCI Compliance, risk, visa
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Payment Card with Smart Chip? So What?
Over the past week, at least three U.S. financial institutions reported receiving tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent credit and debit card transactions coming from Brazil and hitting card accounts stolen in recent retail heists… The problem with that … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, chip in card, credit card, hacked, hackers, Security Awareness, smart card
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