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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Bad passwords on PoS terminals leads to card stealing Backoff malware
More point of sale malware has been making the news, designed to steal credit card information as usual. This time the crooks are distributing the malware through remote control applications like Microsoft’s RDP. No exploits, no social engineering, just good old fashioned password guessing.
“BadUSB” – what if you could never trust a USB device again?
Imagine if you had to throw away your USB devices after letting someone else use them…
Security must come first! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s this week’s 60 Second Security. News you can learn from, in just one minute…
Twitter: 46% rise in requests for user information by governments
In all, there were 2,058 information requests from governments in the first half of 2014, which Twitter says were typically connected with criminal investigations. Those requests covered a total of 3,131 user accounts – 48% more than in the last report.
Tor attack may have unmasked anonymous users
Two Carnegie-Mellon researchers had planned a highly anticipated talk at next week’s Black Hat security conference – a talk that was cancelled when the university’s lawyers freaked out – about how easy it is to break Tor anonymity. They’re innocent until proved guilty, but The Tor Project says it was likely the two researchers are behind the attack. 