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Fraud Botnet Controls Sales Terminals
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-12-05
- Society, botnet, credit card, Dexter, fraud, malware, point of sales, POS, security, StarDust
Ah, the humanity. ArsTechnica reports that researchers came across a proper botnet that controls 31 Point Of Sales (POS) servers with an unknown number of actual sales terminals connected to them. The botnet is operational, i.e., it is running and collecting the credit card data. The data is transmitted during idle times in an encrypted ...
Read MoreSecurity Breach at Unique Vintage
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2013-09-27
- Management, breach, credit card, customer information, exposure, news, rules, security diligence, user information, web
There is news that women’s clothing website Unique Vintage has sent notifications to the customers that the site has been breached and the customer information was exposed. What is interesting is that the website is fully PCI compliant, i.e. it follows all rules for security set forth by the credit card industry. And still, it ...
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.