The Gettysburg Times reports: Those who paid for meals at Gettysburg Hotel’s One Lincoln Restaurant using a credit card between June 2 and July 31 may have had their data compromised, according to a news release from the hotel. Delaware Business Systems, the hotel’s point-of-sale vendor, told the restaurant on Aug. 6 that the “Back-off” malicious…
Category: Malware
Staples Provides Update on Data Security Incident: 1.6M potentially affected
From their press release: FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving a small percentage of its retail point-of-sale systems. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail…
Point Loma Nazarene University discloses breach after employees fall for phishing scheme
Point Loma Nazarene University is notifying an unspecified number of individuals of a security breach that occurred between October 7 and October 20. The breach, involving uanuthorized access to 5 employee email accounts, occurred as a result of successful phishing attempts. While the investigation into the matter is reportedly ongoing, the external forensics experts informed the…
The inside story of how British spies hacked Belgium’s largest telco, Belgacom
Ryan Gallagher reports: When the incoming emails stopped arriving, it seemed innocuous at first. But it would eventually become clear that this was no routine technical problem. Inside a row of gray office buildings in Brussels, a major hacking attack was in progress. And the perpetrators were British government spies. It was in the summer…
Unencrypted Data Lets Thieves ‘Charge Anywhere’
Brian Krebs reports: Charge Anywhere LLC, a mobile payments provider, today disclosed that malicious software planted on its networks may have jeopardized credit card data from transactions the company handled between November 2009 and September 2014. In a statement released today, the South Plainfield, N.J. electronic payment provider said it launched investigation after receiving complaints about fraudulent…
Kaspersky drops deets on Sony hacker malware
Darren Pauli report: Kaspersky bod Kurt Baumgartner has released more details into the Sony-plundering malware and links it to attacks on Saudi Aramco and South Korea. Research conducted in the wake of the epic Sony breach last month had connected those behind the attack known as the Guardians of Peace (GOP) with the 2012 hacking of Saudi Aramco by…