Eddie Bauer Confirms Payment Card Breach of US, Canadian Stores
Clothing store Eddie Bauer has become the latest retail store to acknowledge that malware has led to a breach of its point of sale systems.
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Multiple Vulnerabilities Identified in ‘Utterly Broken’ BHU Routers
Researchers have identified a router so fraught with vulnerabilities and so “utterly broken” that it can be exploited to do pretty much anything.
Threatpost News Wrap, August 19, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the Shadow Brokers debacle, the VeraCrypt audit, Pokemon ransomware, and a browser address bar vulnerability.
Vulnerabilities in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services could result in the disclosure of personally identifiable information and the “disruption of critical operations,” a government watchdog warned this week.
Researchers this week described how a DNSSEC-based flood attack could easily knock a website offline.
Attackers are pushing Pokémon GO-themed ransomware and SMS spam messages to entice players to visit malicious websites.
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab identified an ongoing series of targeted attacks primarily designed to steal sensitive corporate account data from industrial and engineering organizations in the Middle East.
Attackers behind the banking Trojan Vawtrak fortified it with a domain generation algorithm (DGA) and SSL pinning capabilities.
Twenty hotels belonging to HEI Hotels and Resorts have been implicated in a data breach that may have leaked payment data from tens of thousands point of sale purchases.
Gunter Ollmann, CSO at Vectra networks, talks to Mike Mimoso about ransomware as a prototype for malware going forward, as well as the long-term future of exploit kits and whether IoT is something that can be secured sooner rather than later.
