New payment card malware hard to detect and remove
FireEye says it has discovered a type of malware designed to steal payment card data that can be very difficult to detect and remove.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Dec | Read more
FireEye says it has discovered a type of malware designed to steal payment card data that can be very difficult to detect and remove.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Dec | Read more
One of Europe's leading home-security providers is coming across the pond in a big way. The 10-year-old French manufacturer Myfox today announced the availability of its Myfox Home Security System and Myfox Security Camera at Amazon, Home Depot, and other online and brick-and-mortar retailers. From what I saw during a hands-on demo last week, I'm comfortable saying Myfox's offerings are innovative and very different from what's on the market today.
Michael Brown | 26 Jun | Read more
Telstra’s CSO Mike Burgess says it’s critical to avoid distractions when fighting against cybercriminals.
Anthony Caruana | 02 Jun | Read more
The hackers who stole personal data from health insurer Anthem stand to make a whole lot more than the ones who stole 56 million credit and debit card numbers from Home Depot because the potential payback per identity is so much greater.
Tim Greene | 07 Feb | Read more
IBM says there's good and bad news when it comes to retail cyber attacks: While overall network assaults are down by 50%, when they hit, cyber-attackers get a ton of data.
Michael Cooney | 07 Jan | Read more
Spam phishing emails have been updated for the holidays, with new themed emails pretending to update users on their order status from Costco, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, and Home Depot.
Maria Korolov | 17 Dec | Read more
A new kind of point-of-sale malware similar to that which struck Target is being sold in underground markets for $US2000.
Jeremy Kirk | 02 Dec | Read more
Australia is apparently setting the gold standard when it comes to aggregating personal information on its citizens, with the UK said to be using the controversial Australian data-retention regime as a model for its own legislation. There's no telling how that will be received by the US National Security Agency, which was arguing that its own online surveillance programs are legal and carefully scrutinised by other parts of the government.
David Braue | 02 Dec | Read more
Home Depot spent US$43 million in its third quarter dealing with the fallout of one of the largest ever data breaches, highlighting the costly nature of security failures.
Jeremy Kirk | 26 Nov | Read more
The majority of Australian shoppers are aware of the recent data breaches that struck major retailers around the world this year, but a new survey has found that few have changed their own behaviour around the protection of their retail-related private information.
David Braue | 13 Nov | Read more
Recent high-profile data breaches have clearly spooked a lot of companies, many of which expect to face cyber threats in the coming year. And security executives are spending more time advising senior executives and other top business decision makers at their organization on security-related matters.
Bob Violino | 12 Nov | Read more
Home Depot says that in addition to 56 million payment cards, the attackers responsible for the breach on their POS network earlier this year also compromised 53 million email addresses.
Steve Ragan | 08 Nov | Read more
Home Depot has shed more light on a recent data breach that compromised 56 million payment cards, saying hackers used login credentials belonging to another company to access its network. It also revealed that 53 million email addresses were also stolen.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Nov | Read more
In 2014, it seemed that no industry went unscathed. The data breaches this year were broad and deep. Software maker Adobe was hit for 152 million records. Online marketplace eBay was drained of another 145 million; Bank and financial services firm JP Morgan Chase 76 million; retailers Target and The Home Depot for another 70.
George V. Hulme | 06 Nov | Read more
Organisations wondering whether data-security efforts are worth the effort will no doubt find motivation in new research that found consumers are more concerned about the security of their credit-card information than they are about their health or their retirement savings.
David Braue | 28 Oct | Read more