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The FBI’s Qakbot Takedown, QR Code Phishing Attacks, Dox Anyone in America for $15
Tom Eston | | 404 Media, botnet, botnets, Credit Bureaus, credit card, Credit Header Information, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Exploitation, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, doxing, Energy, Episodes, FBI, Fraud, Information Security, Infosec, personal data, Phishing, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Qakbot, QR, QR code, QR Code Phishing, Ransomware, security, Security Awareness, social engineering, technology, Transunion, Weekly Edition
In this episode we discuss the FBI’s remarkable takedown of the Qakbot botnet, a saga involving ransomware, cryptocurrency, and the FBI pushing an uninstaller to thousands of victim PCs. Next, we explore ...
T-Mobile Data Breach, Tinder Identity Verification, Magnetic Stripe Phase Out
Tom Eston | | credit card, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Infosec, Magnetic Stripe, Podcast, Privacy, security, T-Mobile, technology, Tinder, Weekly Edition
T-Mobile suffers another data breach this time impacting 8 million customers, Tinder will start letting users verify their identity to help prevent “catfishing”, and Mastercard is finally phasing out magnetic stripes on ...
Man-in-the-Middle Attack Makes PINs Useless for VISA Cards
EMV protocol is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack All VISA credit cards are affected VISA has to issue update for POS terminals Swiss security researchers have discovered a way to bypass the ...
A Third of Internet Users Are Actively Targeted by COVID-19 Fraud
Filip Truta | | covid, COVID-19, covid-19 fraud, covid-19 phishing, credit, credit card, credit card fraud, credit reporting, Fraud, Industry News, Phishing, Transunion
32% of consumers say they have been targeted by digital fraud related to COVID-19, with phishing emerging as the world’s top digital fraud scheme related to the pandemic, according to TransUnion, the ...
Tupperware Website Compromised with Credit Card Skimmer
David Bisson | | credit card, IT Security and Data Protection, Latest Security News, skimmer, Tupperware
Digital attackers compromised the website of kitchen and household products manufacturer Tupperware with a credit card skimmer. On March 20, researchers at Malwarebytes observed that attackers had compromised tupperware[.]com by hiding malicious ...
Off-Facebook Activity Tool, Ring App Third-Party Trackers, Wawa Credit Card Breach
Tom Eston | | android, credit card, credit card breach, Cybersecurity, Data breach, facebook, google, Off-Facebook Activity, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Privacy, Ring, surveillance, Third-Party, Wawa, Weekly Blaze Podcast
In episode 106 for February 3rd 2020: What you need to know about Facebook’s new off-Facebook activity tool, details about the Ring Android app sending user data to third party trackers, and ...
Head of ‘Cardplanet’ Stolen Credit Card Marketplace Pleads Guilty in the US
Aleksei Burkov, 29, pleaded guilty in the United States to money laundering, device fraud and other crimes after he was caught running an illegal website, called Cardplanet, that sold stolen credit card ...
Choice Hotels: If a + b + c = d, then oops, we might have leaked some Safari users’ personal info
Choice Hotels has advised its customers to watch out for fraud after an extremely specific security lapse may have compromised their personal data. In a notice to customers, the hospitality franchise says ...
Android “Ghost Click” Apps, New Apple Siri Privacy Protections, Credit Card Spying
Tom Eston | | android, Apple, credit card, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Google Play, mobile apps, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Privacy, Siri, spying, Weekly Blaze Podcast
You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 84 for September 2nd 2019: “Ghost click” Android apps ...
Banking start-up exposes PINs for 500,000 customers on the verge of US launch
Banking start-up Monzo has sent out emails to half a million customers after its engineers caught a glimpse of the PIN numbers associated with their cards. The British banking service, which serves ...