10 years on from the Target breach. Has building cyber security improved?

It’s over a decade since the Target data breach. It was an event that reinforced the need for supply chain security reviews. It seems that much has changed since then, or has it? Has the security profile of the average connected building in the USA improved in that time period, be it retail,...

New Backoff PoS Malware Identified in Several Attacks

A new breed of point-of-sale malware has been found in several recent attacks, and experts say that the tool, known as Backoff, has extensive data stealing and exfiltration capabilities, including keylogging, memory scraping and injection into running processes. The Backoff malware doesn’t...

Dexter, Project Hook Point of Sale Malware Still Prevalent

While the Target data breach may be in the rear view mirror, research this week shows it’s clear that many attackers are still using point of sale malware, namely Dexter and Project Hook, in active attacks. Researchers at Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering & Response Team ASERT looked at severa...

Swiss Firm Digs Up 300,000+ Usernames/Passwords on Pastebin

More than 300,000 credentials, usernames and passwords, were posted on the clipboard website Pastebin.com in the year 2013 alone according to a recent analysis by a Swiss security firm. As part of an experiment to determine how big the hacking industry is, High-Tech Bridge, a company until now...

Hardcoded Vendor Credentials Used in Target Data Breach

Attorney General Eric Holder told members of a Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Target data breach. Target has already brought in the Secret Service and a computer forensics company to look into the break-in, which reportedly lasted betwee...

BlackPOS Malware used in TARGET Data Breach developed by 17-Year Old Russian Hacker

The Holiday data breach at TARGET appeared to be part of a broad and highly sophisticated international hacking campaign against multiple retailers, involving the heist of possibly 110 million Credit-Debit cards, and personal information. Target confirmed last weekend that a malicious software wa...

Rich Mogull on the Target Data Breach

Dennis Fisher talks with Rich Mogull of Securosis about the Target data breach, how the attack may have worked, why these breaches are still so common and what can be done to improve the situation...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Target Data Breach and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the news of the weird in the security industry since the holidays, including the latest revelations about the Target data breach and the decision by some speakers to boycott the RSA Conference because of the NSA revelations. Target image via imprint777‘s Flic...

Hackers behind TARGET data breach looking for Pro-cracker to decrypt Credit card PINs

I think you haven’t forgotten the massive data breach occurred at TARGET, the third-largest U.S. Retailer during last Christmas Holidays. People shop during Black Friday sales in which over 40 million Credit & Debit cards were stolen, used to pay for purchases at its 1500 stores nationwide in the...