Engineer jailed for turning PIN Entry Devices into skimmers

Engineer jailed for turning PIN Entry Devices into skimmers


Engineer jailed for turning PIN Entry Devices into skimmers

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:40 AM PDT

Thomas Beeckmann, a 26-year old German electronics engineer, has been sentenced to three years in a UK prison for having modified a number of PIN Entry Devices to record the information used to clone ...

Analysis of 250,000 hacker conversations

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 08:25 AM PDT

Imperva released a report analyzing the content and activities of an online hacker forum with nearly 220,000 registered members, although many are dormant. This forum is used by hackers for trainin...

Offers from domain resellers evade spam filters

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:16 AM PDT

The Internet has created a great amount of business opportunities - most of them legal, some not and some that fall in the gray area between the two extremes. An example of the latter has been spot...

Symantec tackles malicious advertising

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:11 AM PDT

Symantec announced AdVantage, a new cloud-based service that will enable website owners to discover malware hidden in online advertisements. Malicious advertising (malvertising) poses a growing threat...

Simple online protection steps for seniors

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 07:01 AM PDT

Older Americans, who grew up in the era of rotary-dial phones and black and white TV programming, may still be in the minority among Internet users. They are a rapidly growing presence on the Web a...

4 million identity fraud victims in the UK

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 06:50 AM PDT

Identity fraud continues to rise with 4 million victims in UK alone - yet consumers continue to be complacent with their identities. According to research commissioned by Fellowes, although 95 per ...

Sesame Street YouTube channel hacked

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:58 AM PDT

Followers of the Sesame Street YouTube channel have had a nasty surprise when they tuned in on Sunday. Instead of the children-friendly videos they were faced with pretty explicit adult ones: ...

"Facebook lost your messages" spam returns

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 04:20 AM PDT

Facebook users are constantly targeted by emails posing as legitimate notifications from the popular social network, and the latest ones are an upgraded version of an old fake notification in which th...

McAfee and RSA partner for compliance and risk management solution

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:50 AM PDT

McAfee and RSA announced a new joint solution which integrates security data from the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform (McAfee ePO) with business infrastructure and compliance data in the RSA Arch...

Testing web applications for security flaws

Posted: 17 Oct 2011 02:09 AM PDT

David Hoelzer is the Director of Research, Enclave Forensics and a SANS Trainer. In this interview he discusses web application testing, offers advice for those on the hunt for web application vulnera...

Moving To The Cloud

Posted: 16 Oct 2011 09:42 PM PDT

Moving to the Cloud provides an in-depth introduction to cloud computing models, cloud platforms, application development paradigms, concepts and technologies. The authors particularly examine cl...

Week in review: Trojanized Netflix app, new Sony attack and German government's Trojan/backdoor

Posted: 16 Oct 2011 09:01 PM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and photos: Most social networks users don't keep up with privacy settings changes The proliferation and usage of mobile...

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