The Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) informed customers on Tuesday that their payment card data may have been stolen by cybercriminals who installed a piece of malware on its payment processing system.
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Five Reasons to be Thankful for IT Security
After a year of a divisive political climate, Thanksgiving comes at a welcome time.
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Israeli Firm Can Steal Phone Data in Seconds
Petah Tikva, Israel – It only takes a few seconds for an employee of one of the world's leading hacking companies to take a locked smartphone and pull the data from it.
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Fake ISP Complaint Emails Distribute Locky Ransomware Variant
Distributed via spam emails pretending to be complaints from an Internet Service Provider (ISP), a newly observed Locky ransomware variant appends the .AESIR extension to the encrypted files, security researchers reveal.
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Europe Cracks Down on Money Mules: 178 Arrested in Global Operation
178 individuals have been arrested across Europe for money laundering activities. More specifically, the individuals were acting as money mules helping criminals move stolen money out of the country of theft to criminal bank accounts abroad. The action was coordinated by Europol and Eurojust with assistance from law enforcement agencies in 16 European countries, together with the FBI and the U.S. Secret Services.
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Researchers Detect 57 Million Scans for Netis Router Backdoor
News of a backdoor in routers produced by China-based networking solutions provider Netis Systems might be of the past, but the vulnerability is part of the present: tens of millions of attempts to scan for the backdoor have been registered since August, Trend Micro researchers warn.
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Siemens Releases Firmware Updates to Patch SIMATIC Flaws
Siemens has released firmware updates for some of its SIMATIC communications processors and controllers to address several medium-severity vulnerabilities discovered by researchers from various organizations.
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Proactive Security – Does It Exist?
For years, security experts have been struggling to create proactive security products and proactive cyber defense strategies. If we had them, would we have been better prepared for all the major attack campaigns the industry has experienced of late – from the Target breach in 2013 to the Sony hack in 2014 to the recent IoT DDoS hacks and the DNC-related attacks?
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Android Trojan Prevents Security Apps From Launching
A newly discovered Android banking Trojan has been designed not only to be resilient to anti-malware applications, but also to counter them by preventing them from launching, Fortinet security researchers warn.
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Microsoft Plans Valentine’s Breakup With SHA-1
Starting on February 14, 2017, Microsoft’s Edge and Internet Explorer 11 web browsers will no longer load sites protected with a SHA-1 certificate, but will instead display an invalid certificate warning.
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