By Ms. Smith A site linked to 73,011 unsecured security camera locations in 256 countries to illustrate the dangers of using default passwords. Yesterday I stumbled onto a site indexing 73,011 locations with unsecured security cameras in 256 countries …unsecured as in “secured” with default usernames and passwords. The site, with an IP address from […]
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Researchers claim they have found a security flaw with Visa contactless payment cards Criminals could steal large amounts of money from people’s pockets using a mobile phone, because of a glitch in Visa’s contactless credit cards, researchers have said. A study at Newcastle University found the flaw applied to foreign currency transactions. But the scientists
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By Maria Korolov According to the Open Security Foundation, three out of 10 of the all-time worst security breaches happened this year. That includes 173 million records from the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, 145 million records at Ebay, and 104 million records from the Korea Credit Bureau. And that’s not counting the 1.2 billion
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By Mark Wilson There is now great interest in the level of governmental interference that takes place into online activity. Edward Snowden told the world about what the NSA was up to and there are now numerous websites dealing with the revelation that he made. One such site is The Intercept, and it has just
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Over the summer, a U.K. journalist asked the Trustwave SpiderLabs team to target her with an online attack. You might remember that we did the same in 2013 by setting our sites on a U.S.-based reporter. This scenario, however, would differ from the first. The reporter, Sophie, was our only target. Co-workers, company or family
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By Dune Lawrence and Michael Riley Hackers are testing the financial system’s cyber defenses, and they can boast of some alarming success. Video Let’s start with what we know. JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) says a breach of its computer systems exposed the personal information of 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. The
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What needs to be in your tool belt if you plan to report on a massively funded and ultra-secret organization like the NSA? In the credits of her newly released CITIZENFOUR, director Laura Poitras gives thanks to a list of important security resources that are all free software. Here’s a closer look at the seven
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The chip and PIN payment card system – or EMV – is considered to be more secure than the magnetic strip one, but it’s also not bulletproof. Nevertheless, US banks and card issuers are finally planning to make the switch in the wake of the recent massive breaches that hit a number of US retailers.
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Business is thriving on the anonymous internet, despite the efforts of law enforcers THE first ever e-commerce transaction, conducted by students from Stanford and MIT in the early 1970s, involved the sale of a small quantity of marijuana. For decades afterwards, the online drugs trade was severely constrained by the ability of law enforcement
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By Yoni Heisler CurrentC, the mobile payment platform from the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX) poised to take on Apple Pay, sent out an email on Wednesday indicating that it’s already been hacked. While the only information compromised were customer email addresses, the news couldn’t have come at a worse time for CurrentC, which has been
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