US won’t release Russian MP’s son being held on PoS hacking charges

A US federal court has refused to release Roman Seleznev, arrested in the Maldives under suspicion of rigging retail PoS systems to rip off credit card details. Prosecutors say he was caught with over 2 million stolen cards on his laptop and that he’d been searching the US federal court electronic filing system for charges against him.

Supervalu says it was breached – is it the next Target?

US retailer Supervalu is warning customers that an intrusion of its network may have resulted in the theft of credit and debit card account numbers from up to 200 of its stores. Meanwhile, a related data breach affected another 800 stores for which Supervalu provides IT services. Could this be the next Target?

The EPIC edition – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]

One less opt-in app, one more Android virus, and a bunch of EPIC failures… All in this week’s 60 Second Security.

The top 5 privacy failures – what’s the most epic fail of all? [POLL]

The list of culprits in our eroding privacy is long, but some privacy fails stand out above the rest. So we’re calling out five privacy killers that deserve an extra level of shaming. Take our poll, and help us crown the most epic privacy fail of all …

Android “Heart App” virus spreads quickly, author arrested within 17 hours

Q. How to attract the attention of the police if you’re a bored student on summer vacation? A. Write a virus that unleashes 20,000,000 SMSes, infects 100,000 devices, and steals personal data…

Sophos Techknow – Firewalls Demystified [PODCAST]

The word firewall has a lot more shades of meaning in 2014 than it did in 1994. So…who better to help us to demystify the modern firewall than Sophos security expert Chester Wisniewski?

SSCC 159 – What can we learn from the “honeybot”? [PODCAST]

For your listening pleasure! Here’s this week’s episode of the Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast…