Fred’s Inc., a discount general merchandise and pharmacy chain that operates 650 stores in more than a dozen states, disclosed today that it is investigating a potential credit card breach. KrebsOnSecurity contacted Fred’s earlier this week, after hearing from multiple financial institutions about a pattern of fraud on customer cards indicating that Fred’s was the […]

Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for this week’s security podcast. Apple, Microsoft, patching, hacking the army (sort of), and 49 arrests in a Europol action against bank fraudsters! Source: Sophos

Adobe has released security updates to fix 13 security holes in Flash Player, while Microsoft has fixes for at least three dozen flaws in Windows and associated software. 23 flaws that Microsoft fixes reside in Internet Explorer browser. Aside from this it also patches serious problems in Office, Windows O/S and Windows Media Player.   […]

Missing Link Networks Inc., a credit card processor and point-of-sale vendor that serves a number of wineries in Northern California and elsewhere, disclosed today that a breach of its networks exposed card data for transactions it processed in the month of April 2015. Earlier this week, I heard from a source at one of Sonoma, […]

An attacker who knows how to update the firmware – not a tough task, says security researcher Billy Rios – can change the dosage to a lethal limit. Source: Sophos

Adobe today released software updates to plug at least 13 security holes in its Flash Player software. Separately, Microsoft pushed out fixes for at least three dozen flaws in Windows and associated software. The bulk of the flaws Microsoft addressed today (23 of them) reside in the Internet Explorer Web browser. Microsoft also issued fixes […]

“Your commanders admit they are training the people they have sent you to die fighting”, said one of the messages posted on the site. Source: Sophos