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What’s the first thing you do with a new credit card? Peel off the sticky label on the front and activate it? Rush to the store to try it out for the first time? Or, do you post a photo of it (both sides!) to social media for the world to see? One of those […]

Point-of-sale systems are rich targets for attackers, given their status as a gateway to credit card information, customer and back-office data and other goodies. A recently patched vulnerability in Oracle’s MICROS POS system software can lead to attackers gaining full access to the systems, say researchers. Read more

The bill moved by Congress and signed by the president, labeled S. 139, didn’t just stretch Section 702’s duration. It also may increase the NSA’s authority in subtle but nasty ways. The reauthorization marks the first time that Congress declared legislation that explicitly recognizes and codifies some of the most contentious aspects of the NSA’s

A New South Wales court has granted bail to the 37-year-old man accused of accessing the systems of car-sharing service GoGet, after the company went public with the breach Wednesday morning. Read more

There is as yet no indication of who is behind the massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Netherlands banks and government websites that ran from last weekend to Tuesday. Initial reports suggesting a Russian connection appear baseless. Read more

A massive cyptocurrency mining botnet has taken over half a million machines, and may have made its cybercriminal controllers millions of dollars. The whole operation is powered by EternalBlue, the leaked NSA exploit which made the WannaCry ransomware outbreak so destructive. Read more

Thought the Internet of Things was bad? The Internet of Dildos is so much worse. Security researchers have found that a popular internet-connected sex toy is riddled with vulnerabilities and flaws, which put users at a huge privacy risk. The so-called Vibratissimo “panty buster” is a smart toy that connects through Bluetooth to a phone.

Polygon states that pricing for Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1070 should be about $380 depending on the model, but that some cards are now being sold for higher than $700 due to the stock shortages an improvement of more than 80 percent. Cryptocurrency miners use heaps of graphics cards to solve the scientific problems need to

Last April, A hacking organization called the Shadow Brokers leaked EternalBlue, a Windows exploit that was formed by the NSA. Less than a month later, EternalBlue was used to unleash a destructive global ransomware attack called WannaCry that affected more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries. Read more

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has downplayed the risk of fitness app Strava breaching the operational security of Australian soldiers. Strava, a social network for runners and cyclists to track their workouts via satellite navigation, released a heat map in November last year showing the activity of its users worldwide. Read more