Outdated version of WordPress leads to MasterCard Hack

On tip of a readers, yesterday we came across a new MasterCard hack, performed by Syrian Electronic Army. Hackers was able to breach MasterCard Blog https://insights.mastercard.com and make a new blog post on the website with title "Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army" on January 5, 2013. For now...

Flawed EMV Chip-and-PIN Protocol Paves Way To Fraudulent ATM and POS Transactions

A flaw in the EMV protocol which lays out the rules for chip-and-PIN card transactions at ATMs and point-of-sale terminals could enable persistent attackers to carry out bogus card transactions. Five Cambridge UK University researchers released a paper today with the gory details. Foremost among...

Claims Of Attack On Visa, Mastercard Fizzle

One day after a hacker using the handle “Reckz0r” claims to have infiltrated 79 different banks and leaked information allegedly belonging to Visa and MasterCard customers, there are questions about whether a hack actually occurred. According to a post yesterday on Pastebin, the hacker Reckz0r...

New P2P Zeus Variant Targets Popular Sites with Bogus Offers

Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail users should beware of rogue rebate offers and new secure payment options aimed at getting them to part with their debit card information. Earlier this week Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer, announced the discovery of a peer-to-peer variant of the Zeus platform that...

Global Payments Hack Could Span to June 2011, Affect Over 1.5M Cards

The data breach that hit payment processor Global Payments earlier this year could have dated back to June 2011, launching speculation over whether more credit card numbers were stolen than initially reported. Several alerts issued by Visa and Mastercard, obtained by KrebsonSecurity.com, suggest...

Surprises Ahead for Some Level 2 Merchants

The PCI DSS has been around for years, and most PCI "pros" are familiar with the processes needed to validate compliance. However, insiders often forget that small changes to the guidelines can have a big impact on merchants. One such change is upon us: MasterCards new validation guidelines for...

Global Payments Inc. Acknowledges Breach

Following previous announcements from Visa and Mastercard, electronic credit card processor Global Payments Inc. acknowledged late Friday that its system was breached earlier this year. Global Payments announced via press release that a portion of its processing system had been compromised in ear...

eCommerce Fraud Detection Tool - An Anti-fraud solution by MasterCard

eCommerce Fraud Detection Tool - An Anti-fraud solution by MasterCard In the past, a lost wallet, stolen credit card, or misplaced ID were among the paramount culprits of identity theft.Today, one need not lose a thing to eventually lose it all. commerce merchants have a new tool at their disposa...

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers Two days before Anonymous declare that MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous via twitter. It was shortly after MasterCard went down that someone on Twitter, known as ibomhacktivist, promoted "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!...

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers

MasterCard downed by ISP, not Anonymous hackers Two days before Anonymous declare that MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous via twitter. It was shortly after MasterCard went down that someone on Twitter, known as ibomhacktivist, promoted "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!...

ISP Outage, Not Hackers, Take Down MasterCard's Site

UPDATE: An Internet Service Provider outage, not hackers, was to blame for the unavailability of MasterCard’s website early Tuesday morning according to a statement from a company spokesman. “We can confirm that MasterCard’s corporate, public-facing website experienced intermittent service...

MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous

u MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous Today ibomhacktivist tweet "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @AnonCentral and the enter community of lulz loving individuals :D " We have check that is MasterCard.com is really down ...

MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous

u MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous Today ibomhacktivist tweet "MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @AnonCentral and the enter community of lulz loving individuals :D" We have check that is MasterCard.com is really down &...

Is Google Wallet Secure? What You Need to Know

Google announced its long-awaited mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, in New York City on Thursday. The company claims it will revolutionize commerce. But with stories about massive data breaches and hacks an almost daily occurance, consumers are most concerned about whether Google Wallet is...

Anonymous Hacker Group Helps Take Down Insupportable Websites !

Hacker group Anonymous takes down websites across the world for the greater good: peace, freedom of information and solidarity. Anonymous, which began as a movement in 2003 on a series of internet chat boards, has gone from targeting small time hypocrites to large multinational corporations...

WordPress under massive DDoS attack !

Readers of Financial Post or National Post blogs might have found them difficult, if not impossible, to access Thursday morning. That is because WordPress, the platform through which every FP and NP blog has been published for the past 10 months, has been under attack by hackers for the past...

Italian government site (www.governo.it) Hacked !

Software hacker group "Anonymous" launched attacks Sunday against the Italian government's website citing political grievances, ANSA news agency reported. "Anonymous" announced its distributed denial-of-service DDoS assaults earlier in the day, saying they were launched because "the political and...

FBI Conducts Search Warrants At 40 "anonymous" Supporters Wikileaks !

The FBI announced today that they have executed over 40 search warrants in connection with the UK Metropolitan Police against Wikileaks DDoS'ing participants of "enemies." Unlike police met, the FBI did not reveal many details about who may have executed the arrest warrants against, or more...

FBI Chases Pro-Wikileaks Hackers !

U.S. intelligence agencies, the FBI, has asked all countries work together to jointly support track hackers who managed to paralyze the site Wikileaks 'enemy' Wikileaks. Reported by Yahoo News from the Smoking Gun website on Saturday 01.01.2011, FBI showed detailed written statement about the...

4chan back online after being downed by DDoS attacks !

A coordinated DDoS attack from an unknown source temporarily knocked 4chan offline in the latest attack against the high-profile group. The 4chan forum helped to create and cultivate the Anonymous hacker group that has used DDoS attacks against numerous companies in recent months as part of...