Just a few days ago we received an alert from Endesa, a Spanish electricity company, warning us of a new online scam targeting victims through fraudulent emails. The cyber-criminals send out fake invoices to Spanish users, using the Endesa name, and then the attack hits soon after. Unfortunately, the cyber-criminals were successful in their first […]
The entire world population generates and saves enormous amounts of essential information every day. We do so not only to remember and look back on the past, but also, our companies and institutions need this information to run efficiently and transparently. That is why today, on International Archives Day, we wish to stress the importance of safe […]
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Slicing Into a Point-of-Sale Botnet
June 8, 2016
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news of an ongoing credit card breach involving CiCi’s Pizza, a restaurant chain in the United States with more than 500 locations. What follows is an exclusive look at a point-of-sale botnet that appears to have enslaved dozens of hacked payment terminals inside of CiCi’s locations that are being relieved of customer credit card data in […]
It is increasingly common for employees to use their personal technological devices to complete job-related work, whether it is responding to a corporate email from their Smartphone, managing a client relationship from the ease of their tablet, or performing typical work tasks at distance from home, using a personal laptop. Teleworking, and a trend called […]
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Password Re-user? Get Ready to Get Busy
June 6, 2016
In the wake of megabreaches at some of the Internet’s most-recognized destinations, don’t be surprised if you receive password reset requests from numerous companies that didn’t experience a breach: Some big name companies — including Facebook and Netflix — are in the habit of combing through huge data leak troves for credentials that match those […]
Everyone sees not what they want to see
June 6, 2016
In early March, Kaspersky Lab detected the modular Trojan Backdoor.AndroidOS.Triada which granted superuser privileges to downloaded Trojans (i.e. the payload), as well as the chance to get embedded into system processes. Soon after that, on March 15, we found one of the modules enabling a dangerous attack – spoofing URLs loaded in the browser. The […]
The “Deep Web” or “Invisible Web” is on the rise. Humans are curious by nature, and more and more internet users are going to the dark side. Everyone knows that the internet is a never-ending source of information, and search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing can quench our thirst for information using just a few […]
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Banks: Credit Card Breach at CiCi’s Pizza
June 3, 2016
CiCi’s Pizza, an American fast food business based in Coppell, Texas with more than 500 stores in 35 states, appears to be the latest restaurant chain to struggle with a credit card breach. The data available so far suggests that hackers obtained access to card data at affected restaurants by posing as technical support specialists for […]
Though we often speak of electronic waste and the darker side of technology, whose insatiable energy consumption is causing serious harm to the environment, we can actually use technology for good. It’s possible for the internet and our Smartphones to be environmentally friendly. This Sunday, June 5th, we celebrate World Environment Day. We wanted to take […]
For years cybercriminals have had their focus on money, and most specifically in the financial system. For more than a decade they have been mainly targeting the weakest link in the chain: the final user that uses online banking services. This approach has some benefits for these cybercriminals: poor security in the end user, small […]