In an interview with CNBC, Target’s CEO Gregg Steinhafel, confirmed that their point-of-sale terminals had been infected with malware and this was used to steal credit and debit card information from millions of people durin...
Always be aware of scammers calling to fix a virus on your computer.
The malware attack that had recently been using Yahoo’s ads to spread was apparently doing so to use computer resources to mine Bitcoins. This information comes to us from a company called Light Cyber, and for now seems that...
In response to the fact that millions of names and phone numbers were stolen, Snapchat is allowing you to unlink your phone number from your Snapchat account by opting out of the Find Friends feature. This change takes effect in t...
In the last couple of days the Yahoo ads has been struck by malware and thousands people have been infected as a result. This news was revealed by Fox-IT, a firm specializing in Internet security. Fox-IT stated that “clients...
World of Warcraft has recently been the target of a malware attack which has the chance of infiltrating accounts and stealing user data. Blizzard support recently identified the malware as originating from a fake copy of the Curse...
Anti-viruses are there to be ignored, yes.
It was revealed at the Chaos Computing Congress that there have been several attacks on European ATMs, in which thieves would cut holes into the machines and inserted their own USB drives, which allowed them to infect the machines...
Only a couple days into the new year and already there have been more hacks. This time it was Skype who was the target and the hackers left a message which was pretty clear: Spying on the public has to stop. Already there has been...
A little more than a week after information on a weakness within Snapchat’s security was highlighted, the service has been hacked and details on usernames and their phones numbers, numbering at 4.6 million, have been publish...
The Target nightmare continues, for both Target and their customers. In light of the massive data hack during the holiday season, Target has become the target in dozens of lawsuits. So far the company has been named in about 40 di...
Target has just acknowledged that PINs were stolen in the massive security breach their system suffered roughly a month ago. The hack occurred at the end of November and beginning of December, and along with PINs being stolen, aro...
According to the New York Times the data that had been stolen from the hack on Target is now rolling into the black market. In early December the hack Target suffered resulted in data stolen from roughly 40 million debit and credi...
Shopping at Target might sound like a good deal. They often have a large selection of the brands everyone is looking for at a reasonable price. Unfortunately, if you shopped at Target between Thanksgiving and December 15th, you co...
In a recent interview with “60 Minutes”, NSA officials claimed that China has developed a new type of BIOS-based malware that can remotely destroy any computer in the world. This is quite interesting if true, and could also mean w...
