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UPDATE: More than 1,000 Wordpress blogs are currently being infected by a form of malware that has ‘piggybacked’ its way onto the blogging platform using the Wordpress automatic update function, a security researcher has discovered.
The data breach that hit payment processor Global Payments earlier this year could have dated back to June 2011, launching speculation over whether more credit card numbers were stolen than initially reported.
Unprotected users visiting a page hosting the much-discussed Flashback Trojan could be earning some serious cash for the malware’s creators, according to new research from Symantec.
An e-mail gaffe and a spelling mistake by a doctor led to a breach of the UK’s Data Protection Act last year, according to a press release by the Information Commissioner’s Office today.
Six individuals were charged late last week with “skimming” more than $200,000 from victims who used their credit or debit cards at Wrigley Field and other Chicago restaurants.
VIEW SLIDESHOW Mac Malware through the YearsWith the recent glut of high profile Mac-based malware like MacDefender and Flashback, it’s easy to forget that Macintosh computers (and Mac malware) have been kicking around for more than thirty years – longer, even, than Windows malware. In fact, the first documented Mac virus actually predated some of the first PC viruses by a good four years.
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