CHIP — The World's First $9 Computer

Wait! What? A $9 computer? This is something magical. A Californian startup lead by Dave Rauchwerk is currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter to create a computer that will cost as much as $9 or £6. The new microcomputer, dubbed CHIP, is a tiny, Linux-based, super-cheap computer that's...

Crazy! Hacker Implants NFC Chip In His Hand To Hack Android Phones

There is a very sleek line between hacking and security. The security used to protect the public could be misused by hackers against the public itself, and one shouldn’t forget that with the advance in technology, the techniques used by cyber criminals also improves. Today, What hackers need to...

CVE-2015-0695: Undefined Security Weakness

Cisco IOS XR 4.3.4 through 5.3.0 on ASR 9000 devices, when uRPF, PBR, QoS, or an ACL is configured, does not properly handle bridge-group virtual interface BVI traffic, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service chip and card hangs and reloads by triggering use of a BVI interface...

Cisco IOS XR Software BVI Routed Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the packet-processing code of Cisco IOS XR Software for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers ASR could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a lockup and eventual reload of a network processor chip and the line card that is processing traffic. Only...

Smart ATM offers Cardless Cash Withdrawal to Avoid Card Skimmers

Banks have tried every effort, from providing Magnetic Stripes based Credit and Debit Cards to Chip-and-Pin Cards, in order to secure its users from credit card cloning and card Skimmers. It has been known from years that Magnetic stripe are incredibly hackable, but Chip-n-Pin cards have also bee...

NSA Could Be Hoping For Clipper Chip Redux

The NSA has a new director, a slew of new challenges and any number of new capabilities at its disposal. But it seems that the agency is intent on fighting the same old battles. Even as fresh revelations about the extent of the NSA’s efforts to get access to encryption keys for mobile...

Entangled Photons on Silicon Chip: Secure Communications & Ultrafast Computers

With the rise in technology, the need of ultrafast quantum computer has also increased that can work on huge numbers and calculations at the same time. Quantum technology has long been a scientific dream, but now it is a step closer to becoming a reality after a team of scientists has figured out...

Quantum Encryption Makes Credit Cards Fraud-Proof

Credit card frauds are very common these days – today a data breach occurs in retailer’s shop, online shopping site or banking site and at the next moment millions of cards appears in the underground black market – how simple is that for cyber criminals nowadays. But imagine if there is no possib...

Home Depot Breach Cost Company $43 Million in Third Quarter

The massive Home Depot data breach disclosed earlier this fall involved the theft of 56 million credit and debit card numbers, and now the company has revealed that the incident so far has cost it $43 million. The costs are the result of both the investigation into the data breach as well as the...

British security researchers have found VISA wireless payments vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, UK Newcastle University, security researcher in the VISA contactless payment card, found a security vulnerability, exploit the vulnerability the attacker is simply using the phone from someone else's wallet to steal large amounts of cash. Contactless payment card using the encryption ch...

American Express Brings Tokenization to Payment Cards

American Express has taken steps toward lifting the burden from retailers having to store payment-card data with the announcement of its American Express Token Service. The service will replace traditional 16-digit credit card numbers with a digital token. Consumers carrying a card supporting the...

Obama Executive Order Forces Chip & Pin, EMV on Government

President Barack Obama last week signed an Executive Order that will force the federal government to adopt chip and PIN technology for government payment cards and to outfit retail point-of-sale terminals at federal facilities – like national parks and post offices – with the capacity to accept...

PCI Community Meeting - EMV Chip Update

Randy Vanderhoof, Executive Director, EMV Migration Forum EMF, presented the EMV Chip Update today at Day Two of the PCI Community Meeting. The session provided attendees with insights into the EMV chip migration process in the U.S. and how this impacts PCI security efforts...

Home Depot Data Breach Confirmed

Home Depot today finally confirmed that its payment systems have been breached, but a number of crucial questions remain unanswered by the giant home improvement retailer. In a statement released late this afternoon, Home Depot said customers using payment cards at its U.S. and Canada locations,...

Cisco IOS XR Software IPv6 Packet Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20140611-ipv6)

Cisco IOS XR is prone to a remote denial of service DoS vulnerability. Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free...

Backoff Sinkhole Reveals Sorry Point-of-Sale Security

Kaspersky Lab researchers say that a recent analysis of two Backoff malware command and control servers paints “a very bleak picture of the state of point-of-sale security.” Kaspersky Lab sinkholed two of the malware’s command and control servers. In just two days, nearly 100 infected systems,...

Cisco IOS XR MPLS and Network Processor (NP) Chip DoS (Typhoon-based Line Cards)

The remote Cisco device is running a version Cisco IOS XR software that is potentially affected by a denial of service vulnerability related the handling of maliciously crafted MPLS Multiprotocol Label Switching packets routed by a bridge-group virtual interface. Note that this issue only affects...

Expert Warns of Chip-and-PIN Pitfalls

LAS VEGAS – The inevitable changeover from magnetic strip-based payment cards to EMV, or chip-and-PIN, is coming for consumers and merchants in the United States. And coming along with it are a raft of weaknesses and real-world attacks that shoot holes in the presumption that EMV will remedy cred...

Critical Android FakeID Bug Allows Attackers to Impersonate Trusted Apps

There is a critical vulnerability in millions of Android devices that allows a malicious app to impersonate a trusted application in a transparent way, enabling an attacker to take a number of actions, including inserting malicious code into a legitimate app or even take complete control of an...

PT-2014-5216

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Cisco IOS XR versions 4.3.2 and earlier Description The issue is related to improper NetFlow sampling of IP packets, which can be exploited by sending malformed IPv4 or IPv6 packets to cause a denial of service, resulting in chip and card hang...