Move over TJ Maxx, payment processor Heartland Payment Systems has potentially leaked up to 100 million credit and debit accounts into the black market. That number, if verified, would make this the largest data breach on record. It also means the United States has managed to set two national records in the same day.
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Heartland has No Heart for Violated Customers
PC World – 57 minutes ago On Tuesday, one of the busiest news days of the year, Heartland Payment quietly released a statement declaring the company's card processing system had been hacked. Malware creates credit-card chaos at US firm Canada.com Hackers attack credit card processor in massive security breach CBC.ca InternetNews.com – Inquirer – E Canada Now – New York Times all 179 news articles Langue : Français |
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Windows Virus Infects 9 Million
Techtree.com – 1 hour ago The malicious program includes a code or other malware that could damage both, the system and the network. Being slated by experts as one of the worst malware outbreaks of the past five years, a nasty worm called "Downadup" aka "Conficker" and "Kido" … Conficker seizes city's hospital network Register Windows virus infects 9m computers guardian.co.uk DailyTech – Telegraph.co.uk – Sky News – Idealo Product News all 283 news articles Langue : Français |
Emb3rz writes “DarkReading.com brings us news of a new approach to phishing that targets online banking sites. Here’s the novel part of it: it doesn’t involve any of the typical attack vectors we all know and love. Instead, it uses JavaScript from a remote page to detect if you have a banking site open, and prompts you for info via popup if you do.”
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New phishing attack vectors are already popping up in 2009; whatever else they are, malware authors aren’t lazy. This delicious new flavor attempts to snare your data without using e-mail at all.
