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Switching from Symantec to Sophos just got even easier

October 28, 2019 admin Corporate, Enduser, Intercept X, Symantec

Credit to Author: Seth Geftic| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:30:22 +0000

Replacing Symantec Endpoint Protection? Step up to Sophos Intercept X.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/T4kprj0xlLE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?

November 4, 2018 admin @breachmessenger, 46.161.40.49, A Little Sunshine, AIDE, Breadcrumbs, British Airways breach, formjacking, Magecart, Newegg breach, RiskIQ, Symantec, The Coming Storm, Tripwire, watchdo.gs, Web Fraud 2.0, wewatchyourwebsite.com, window.atob, Yonathan Klijnsma

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 19:10:06 +0000

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating it as giant blobs of gibberish text that is obvious even to the untrained eye. These days, a compromised e-commerce site is more likely to be seeded with a tiny snippet of code that invokes a hostile domain which appears harmless or that is virtually indistinguishable from the hacked site’s own domain.

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Credit Card Issuer TCM Bank Leaked Applicant Data for 16 Months

August 3, 2018 admin Bruce Radke, data breaches, Equifax, ICBA, ICBA Bancard, Independent Community Bankers Association, Lifelock, Symantec, target breach, TCM Bank

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:48:53 +0000

TCM Bank, a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM is a subsidiary of Washington, D.C.-based ICBA Bancard Inc., which helps community banks provide a credit card option to their customers using bank-branded cards.

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LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses

July 25, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Lifelock, Nathan Reese, Symantec, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 22:20:46 +0000

Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers. The company just fixed a vulnerability on its Web site that allowed anyone with a Web browser to index email addresses associated with millions of customer accounts, or to unsubscribe users from all communications from the company. The upshot of this weakness is that cyber criminals could harvest the data and use it in targeted phishing campaigns that spoof LifeLock’s brand. Of course, phishers could spam the entire world looking for LifeLock customers without the aid of this flaw, but nevertheless the design of the company’s site suggests that whoever put it together lacked a basic understanding of Web site authentication and security. The upshot of this weakness is that cyber criminals could harvest the data and use it in targeted phishing campaigns that spoof LifeLock’s brand. Of course, phishers could spam the entire world looking for LifeLock customers without the aid of this flaw, but nevertheless the design of the company’s site suggests that whoever put it together it lacked a basic understanding of authentication and security.

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Bad .Men at .Work. Please Don’t .Click

June 11, 2018 admin .accountant, .bid, .click, .country, .date, .gdn, .jetzt, .kim, .loan, .mom, .ren, .stream, .vip, .wang, .win, .xin, A Little Sunshine, download, ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, men, Namecheap, new TLD spam, new TLDs, OpenDNS, party, racing, Review, Richard Kirkendall, spamhaus, Symantec, Top 20 Shady Top-Level Domains, Trade, work

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:42:39 +0000

Web site names ending in new top-level domains (TLDs) like .men, .work and .click are some of the riskiest and spammy-est on the Internet, according to experts who track such concentrations of badness online. Not that there still aren’t a whole mess of nasty .com, .net and .biz domains out there, but relative to their size (i.e. overall number of domains) these newer TLDs are far dicier to visit than most online destinations.

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Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again.

May 9, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, AT&T, California Utility Exchange, Carrie Kerskie, Centralized Credit Check Systems, Consumers Union, credit freeze, Equifax, Equifax Credit Information Services Inc, Equifax Information Services LLC, Experian, Google Chrome 66, Hodges University, Identity Fraud Institute, Innovis, National Consumer Telecommunications and Utilities Exchange, NCTUE, nctue.com, New York Data Exchange, security freeze, Symantec, Trans Union, Verizon

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 13:36:04 +0000

I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are finding ways to open new mobile phone accounts in the names of people who have already frozen their credit files with the big-three credit bureaus. Here’s a look at what may be going on, and how you can protect yourself.

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Think You’ve Got Your Credit Freezes Covered? Think Again.

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 13:36:04 +0000

I spent a few days last week speaking at and attending a conference on responding to identity theft. The forum was held in Florida, one of the major epicenters for identity fraud complaints in United States. One gripe I heard from several presenters was that identity thieves increasingly are finding ways to open new lines of credit for things like mobile phones on people who have already frozen their credit files with the big-three credit bureaus. Here’s a look at what may be going on, and how you can protect yourself.

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