Researchers Bypass Chip and Pin Protections at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS – Credit card companies for the most part have moved away from “swipe and signature” credit cards to chip and pin cards by this point; the technology known as EMV Europay, MasterCard, and Visa which is supposed to provide consumers with an added layer of security is beginning to see som...

FireEye Details Microsoft Zero Day Attack on 100 Companies

More than 100 North American companies were attacked by crooks exploiting a Windows zero day vulnerability. The attacks began in early March and involved the zero day vulnerability CVE-2016-0167 reported and partially fixed in April’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins by Microsoft. The zero day wa...

Global Payments Says 1.5 Million Cards May Be Affected By Breach

UPDATED–Global Payments, the payment-processing company that was the victim of a massive data breach revealed last week, said that the attack appears to have compromised something less than 1.5 million credit card numbers and that the attack looks to have been isolated to the network in North...