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Home Depot security was anything but, say former employees

Bit by bit, information about the Home Depot security breach is coming to light, and the picture it paints is extremely unflattering for the retailer. The latest insight comes …

Home Depot completes malware elimination in all U.S. stores

Home Depot confirmed that the malware used in its recent breach has been eliminated from its U.S. and Canadian networks. They completed a major payment security project that …

XSS bug allows Amazon account hijacking

A recurring XSS bug in Amazon’s Kindle Library, i.e. the “Manage your Kindle” web application, can be exploited by attackers looking to hijack users’ …

Freenode suffers breach, asks users to change their passwords

Popular IRC network Freenode has suffered a security breach and is asking users to change their passwords, as they might have been compromised. “Earlier today the …

Home Depot and Target attackers likely not the same

More details about the malware used in the Home Depot breach have surfaced, and it seems that, after all, it wasn’t the one used in the Target breach (BlackPOS). …

Everything you need to know about POS malware

With this year’s dramatic uptick in data breaches targeting retailers and restaurant chains and, more specifically, the payment card data they process every day, …

Most people still unconcerned about privacy threats

While cyber thieves continue to breach major corporations such as JP Morgan and, just last week, the Salvation Army and Home Depot, Americans still seem to be unconcerned …

Home Depot breach confirmed, stolen info used to change PINs, collect money

In a terse statement, and an annoyingly repetitive FAQ, Home Depot has confirmed that it had suffered a breach of its payment data systems. The breach could impact any …

Mounting evidence points towards Home Depot breach

Still officially unconfirmed, a Home Depot hack looks increasingly likely to have happened. As Nicole Perlroth noted, the source of stolen card information can be discovered …

Home Depot breached, carders selling stolen payment card info

The Home Depot, a popular American home improvement and construction retailer that boasts of 2,200 stores in the US and 287 abroad, has apparently suffered a data breach that …

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 …

New BlackPOS variant masquerades as AV service

Before the Backoff point-of-sale malware received deserved attention, the main player in the PoS malware field was BlackPOS (or Kaptoxa), the memory-scraping malware that was …

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