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Credit card fraud is up, even after the US switched to chip-based cards. what’s up with that? “Gemini Advisory now says that 60 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen in the US in the past 12 months, and most of those were chip-based cards. The firm found this information by trawling Dark Web…
“On Sunday, TeamViewer spokesman Axel Schmidt acknowledged to Ars that the number of takeovers was “significant,” but it continued to maintain that the compromises are the result of user passwords that were compromised through a cluster of recently exposed megabreaches involving more than 642 million passwords belonging to users of LinkedIn, MySpace, and other services.”…
Once, there was a casino with an awesome fish tank, that required a lot of monitoring to keep it operating efficiently for the fish. Enter, the Internet of Things… The fish tank had sensors connected to a PC that regulated the temperature, food and cleanliness of the tank. OK, that’s kind of cool. We can…
“This sort of attack is deeply different than the headline-grabbing DDoS attacks of years past. In 2011, hacker collective Anonymous rose to fame with DDoS attacks that pale in comparison to today’s attack on Dyn. Instead of taking out an individual website for short periods of time, hackers were able to take down a major…
Amid the personal wreck of a website that, upon returning yesterday, somehow came up with a screwed up CPanel installation that leaves me with as much access to make changes to it as you have, and a mail server that, for some reason, delivered my email about 4-5 hours later for this domain this morning,…
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