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PoS vendor confirms Jimmy John’s breach was their fault

Signature Systems, the PoS system vendor that has been named as the likely point of origin of the Jimmy John’s payment data breach, has confirmed that the attacker(s) …

Payment card info of 880k Viator customers compromised

Payment card and personal information of approximately 1.4 million Viator.com customers may have been compromised in a breach that was confirmed late last Friday. The popular …

How to keep your contactless payments secure

Contactless transactions – ranging from access control and ticketing to financial payments – emerged almost two decades ago and, since then, have become widely …

Apple adds two-step verification for iCloud

Apple has announced that the two-step verification option for iCloud accounts now also extends to iCloud backups, preventing attackers who know the target’s password …

Massive Gmail credential leak is not result of a breach

By now, you might have heard that there has been a leak of a nearly 5 million username and password combinations associated with Google accounts. According to an RT report, …

Apple built multi-factor authenticated payment in the right order

As an American living in Europe I have been perplexed at multi-factor authentication for payments. The Americans (laggards in my opinion) have been using magnetic stripe cards …

Namecheap accounts brute-forced by CyberVor gang?

California-based domain registrar and web hosting firm Namecheap has been targeted by hackers, the company’s VP of hosting Matt Russell warned on Monday, and said that …

51% of consumers share passwords

Consumers are inadvertently leaving back doors open to attackers as they share log in details and sign up for automatic log on to mobile apps and services, according to new …

Successful strategies to avoid frequent password changes

1.2 billion passwords reportedly stolen by Russian hackers. Before that it was Heartbleed. After a widespread, nonspecific data breach, the conventional wisdom is that people …

Gemalto to acquire SafeNet

Gemalto has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the share capital of SafeNet, a worldwide leader in data protection and software monetization, from Vector Capital …

92% of brands fail email security test

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA), the non-profit with the mission to enhance online trust and empower users, announced the results of its 2014 Email Integrity Audit report, …

Teen researcher publishes PayPal 2FA bypass exploit

Joshua Rogers, a teenage whitehat based in Australia, has found an extremely simple way to bypass PayPal’s two-factor authentication feature. Rogers first discovered the …

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