Jun 10, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Back in January, it was reported that Wendy’s Restaurants was investigating a possible breach. They made a statement that point of sale malware was found in ‘about 5% of restaurants’. That number just got a lot larger! While the final count of...
Jun 6, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
According to Krebs On Security, Cici’s restaurants appears to be the latest victim of the POS data breach trend. Over the past two months, KrebsOnSecurity has received inquiries from fraud fighters at more than a half-dozen financial institutions in the United...
Jun 4, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
As many as 93% of all phishing emails now contain ransomware, according to a new report by PhishMe. The figure would represent a staggering rise, as the same report notes that ransomware was found in just 56% of phishing emails as recently as December 2015, and less...
May 31, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
On 12 May, Tumblr revealed that it had just discovered a 2013 breach of user email addresses and passwords. Details were sparse, and the company reportedly refused to put a number on the affected accounts. Now, we know: the dataset included more than 65 million...
May 31, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Today we bring you news of a breach which is so massive in size, it is quite probably, the largest breach in history. This particular breach is from MySpace, and the number of passwords claimed to be included is an eye-popping 427 million. Apparently, there are only...
May 25, 2016 | Data Breaches, General Security
Microsoft if battling weak passwords by banning those most commonly used passwords – as found in lists of breached user accounts: Azure Active Directory’s 10 million or so users will no longer be able to select a password that’s appeared too many...
