Sep 2, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
By Mark James So, you’re minding your own business working through your day-to-day battle of never-ending emails and sorting through all the stuff you should have finished yesterday. Suddenly, an urgent email drops into your inbox from the boss, asking for an urgent...
Sep 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants has admitted that 60 of their 64 properties were hit by a Payment Card Terminal or Point of Sale Malware infection. The Kimpton Hotel Data Breach affected card processing servers within the Kimpton properties in 60 out of their total 64...
Aug 31, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
The hack of Dropbox was actually in 2012, but it is only becoming known now, that the number of affected customers was more than 68 million. Dropbox is quick to reassure customers that none of the accounts were accessed improperly, and that the forced password change...
Aug 31, 2016 | Browser Security, Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Opera was once a proudly Norwegian browser that was different from the rest in more than just look and feel. Most other browsers used one of three main core components: Microsoft’s, Mozilla’s or WebKit’s. (WebKit originated from Apple but has now diverged into...
Aug 30, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security, Malware and Exploits
Today we learned that two separate hotel chains are warning their customers that they have suffered point-of-sale malware infections that compromised customers’ payment card data. Both chains say they were alerted to related card fraud by the U.S. Secret Service...
Aug 25, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
Today Apple released iOS 9.3.5, an essential update for all iOS devices, meaning iPhones, iPads and iPods. Apple didn’t add any new features as part of this software update, but instead fixed at least one, possibly 3 major security vulnerabilities have been...
