Fraud analysts in the banking industry tell KrebsOnSecurity that the latest hospitality firm to suffer a credit card breach is likely Landry’s Inc., a company that manages a nationwide stable of well-known restaurants — including Bubba Gump, Claim Jumper, McCormick & Schmick’s, and Morton’s.  Update, 2:57 p.m. ET: Landry’s has acknowledged an investigation. Their press release […]

Hzone threatened to infect the admin for a site that planned to write about its week-long spillage of a laundry list’s worth of PII. Source: Sophos

Sources at multiple financial institutions say they are tracking a pattern of fraud indicating that thieves have somehow compromised the credit card terminals at checkout lanes within multiple Safeway stores in California and Colorado. Safeway confirmed it is investigating skimming incidents at several stores. Banking sources say they’ve been trying to figure out why so many […]

The next time you need to pay for parking, it might be best to have a handful of coins ready for the meter. Source: Sophos

The author of the venerable Microsoft Word Intruder exploit generator has upgraded his crimeware service to target more users. Source: Sophos

The makers of MacKeeper — a much-maligned software utility many consider to be little more than scareware that targets Mac users — have acknowledged a breach that exposed the usernames, passwords and other information on more than 13 million customers and, er…users. Perhaps more interestingly, the guy who found and reported the breach doesn’t even […]