Kmart has been confirmed as the latest retail chain to be breached after its parent company admitted that some customers’ debit and credit card numbers had been compromised.
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‘The Snappening’: Snapchat images flood the internet after SnapSaved.com hack
Hundreds of thousands of supposedly self-destructing Snapchat snaps have been apparently jimmied out of the database for SnapSaved.com, a third-party website not affiliated with Snapchat which allows users to save unopened photos from Snapchat without the sender knowing the images have been saved.
Backoff malware gang hits Dairy Queen stores
Customers’ payment card details may have been whipped out of nearly 400 Dairy Queen stores in the US. It’s just the latest in a string of PoS malware infections that have been slamming US retailers. 
Patch Tuesday for October 2014 – bigger than usual as Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle align
Oracle, Adobe and Microsoft patches are all arriving together on Tuesday 14 October 2014. Paul Ducklin looks at what to expect…
Mummy, my schoolbooks are spying on me! 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s our latest 60 Second Security video for your viewing pleasure. The wry side of the week’s news, in just a minute…
Return of the Android SMS virus – self-spreading “Selfmite” worm comes back for more
Back in June 2014, we wrote about an Android virus that worked a bit like the email worms of the early 2000s. Well, that Android virus has made a comeback, and this variant is both pushier and more flexible than before… 
Police thwarted by remote wiping of tablets and phones
Several UK police forces are left baffled after evidence on phones and tablets has evaporated into thin air, even after suspects have been taken into custody.
FBI’s warrantless ‘hack’ of Silk Road was legal, prosecutors claim
Even if FBI agents did hack their way into the Silk Road without a warrant – and they’re most certainly not confessing to that, mind you – the intrusion would have been an upstanding, law-abiding, Fourth Amendment-respecting act of criminal investigation, the government argued in a Monday court filing. 
Reminder: iCloud’s going to demand app-specific passwords from third-party apps
Yes, your third-party calendar, mail and contacts apps that don’t support Apple’s new two-factor authentication system are going to turn 10 toes up on your iThings. You’ll need app-specific passwords to get at the cloud data. 
Adobe will update e-reader to mop up clear-text data spillage
Adobe is working on an update to fix the latest iteration of its e-book reader, which has a gluttonous appetite for readers’ data and the slovenly habit of reporting our reading habits back to Adobe – in plain text. 