Point of Sale and Malware Point of Sale has come under scrutiny in 2013 and 2014, particularly in the USA, where several large data breaches have taken place. These data breaches have involved theft of credit and/or debit card details. The cause of these breaches has been traced back to malware that has been installed…
Shell Shock Last week an issue with bash was uncovered. The vulnerability looks to have existed for 22 years; GNU versions of bash dating back to version 1.14 and extending to version 4.3 are known to have the issue. The bug has been dubbed “Shell Shock”. It is a possibly on a par with the…
Australia good for phishing Kaspersky released their August report on spam, phishing and other threats. One finding is that Australia is leading the way with being targeted by phishing attacks. Other areas covered by the report included malicious email attachments, organisations most targeted by phishing attacks and statistics on phishing for August. All statistics are…
The Latest on the Home Depot Data Breach The Home Depot data breach looks to have been caused by the same malware responsible for a major data breach at Target in the USA. The malware, called BlackPOS, was able to be uploaded to a Target PC via a phishing attack. Whilst the exact nature of…
Jennifer Lawrence photos The big news in the last few days has been the posting of nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence. At this stage, it appears that her iCloud account was compromised. The breach is still under investigation at this point in time. This article at The Huffington Post has more details on the posting of the…
