Mishandled data phones home - ‘I fell off the truck’
Fujifilm Recording Media has launched in the US a GPS tracking device for tape storage — the backup and archiving medium with a nasty habit of “disappearing” while in transit to remote sites.…
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Other retailers may be vulnerable
The data breach at a US grocery chain that resulted in the theft of data for more than 4.2 million credit card accounts was caused by a sophisticated piece of malware that attackers installed on all of the company’s retail outlets.…
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Earlier this month, Security Fix took a look at Dmitry Ivanovich Golubov, a Ukrainian politician once considered by U.S. law enforcement to be a top cybercrime boss. Golubov took rather strong exception to the way he was characterized in that post, denying involvement in any type of cybercrime activity. The problem, Golubov claimed, is that the FBI confused him with someone else. According to Golubov, he was the victim of identity theft. Someone gained access to his passport, scanned it and posted it online along with a note confessing his involvement in a multinational credit card theft ring. According to Golubov, the note read: “I Dmitry Golubov, leading hacker, I hack banks, but I have nothing to fear because the police with me at the same time, and in order for you to believe me that I am not afraid I show you my passport, as well as my […]
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DaisyDukes brings memory sniffing to the masses
CanSecWest Building off recent research that showed how to extract encryption keys from a computer’s memory, a penetration testing company has unveiled a tool that sniffs out passwords, documents, and other sensitive data in a matter of minutes.…
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Card crackers shown red
US legislators are clamping down on the use of RFID technologies to steal personal data as cards using the technology become more ubiquitous.…
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