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Buckle confirms it suffered a credit card breach!

The Buckle, Inc. is a United States fashion retailer selling clothing, footwear, and accessories for men and women. The company operates 465 stores in 44 U.S. states. The company recognized malware on certain retail store location point-of-sale (POS) systems. The malware obviously was created to steal payment card information (account number, account holder’s name, and expiration […]

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Here is the list of Routers that are vulnerable to CherryBlossom

3Com: 3CRWE454A72, 3CRWX120695A, 3CRWX275075A, 3CRTRV10075, 3CRWE41196, 3CRWE454G72, 3CRWE53172, 3CRWE554G72T, 3CRWE554G72TU, 3CRWE675075, 3CRWE725075A-US, 3CRWE754G72-A, 3CRWE754G72-B, 3CRWE825075A-US, 3CRWE875075A-US, 3CRWE91096A, 3CRWE91096A, 3CRWE920G73-US, 3CRWEASY96A, 3CRWEASY96A, 3CRWEASYG73-U, 3CRWX440095A Accton: WA3101, WA4101, WA5101, WA5201, WA6101, WA6102, WA6102X Aironet/Cisco: Aironet 1310 Outdoor Access Point /Bridge, Aironet 350 Series Wireless Bridge, 1300 Series Outdoor Access Point/Bridge, Aironet 1200 Series a/b/g Access Point, Aironet

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The Nigerian Spammers From the 90s Have Moved on to Keyloggers and RATs

Each day, countless of security researchers are fighting the good fight in an effort to help companies remove malware from infected computers and servers. These researchers have to go through numerous hoops to get their message across to the proper person inside companies or government organizations who are allowed or can remove these infections from

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The CIA can turn your Router’s firmware into a surveillance tool

According to new Posts published by WikiLeaks, the CIA has been developing and maintaining a host of tools to do just that. This morning, the organization published new documents describing a program called Cherry Blossom, which uses an altered version of a given router’s firmware to turn it into a surveillance tool. Once in point,

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Be careful! your E-Cigarette can be used to hack your computer

Ross Bevington (a security researcher) found that an E-cigarette can hack a computer by fooling it to think that it was a keyboard. It was also able to hack the computer by interfering with its network traffic. For those unfamiliar, an electronic cigarette or e-cigarette is a handheld electronic device that creates an aerosol by

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Blaming the Internet For Terrorism Misses The Point

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has found something to blame for Saturday night’s terror attack in London: the internet. May, responding to the attack by three young men who killed seven people and injured scores more, called for an end to the “safe spaces” that the internet provides, and for measures to “regulate cyberspace.” Read

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Major Bitcoin Exchanges Hit By Cyberattacks As Record Rally Makes Them A Target

“Speaking about growing DDoS attacks against Bitcoins stock exchanges and other infrastructure companies, they are likely conducted to influence Bitcoin exchange rate (in USD) by unfair traders and speculators. Such wild speculative tactics and the ease of the attacks reminds me 1929 in the US. Read more

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Chinese Satellite Breaks Distance Record For Quantum-Key Exchange

Science Magazine reports a team of physicists using the Chinese Micius satellite (launched back in August 2016) have sent quantum-entangled photons from a satellite to ground stations separated by 1200 kilometers, smashing the previous world record. Sending entangled photons through space instead of optical fiber networks with repeaters has long been the dream of those

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