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Scammers want to wreck your business, vacation travel
Yes I suppose it is what it is, but sadly you can't travel on business or vacation and let your electronic guard down. The Federal Trade Commission recently published a few scams it was warning travelers to be on the lookout for including: The late night front desk call: You think you're getting a late-night call from the front desk telling you there's a problem with your credit card, and they need to verify the number, so you read it to them over the phone. But it's really a scammer on the line. If a hotel really had an issue with your card, they would ask you to come to the front desk. +More on Network World: FBI warns businesses "Man-in-the-E-Mail" scam escalating+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Microsoft debugs Explorer, Windows with Patch Tuesday updates
Another month of security updates from Microsoft means, once again, another round of fixes for the company's Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser, as well as a set of updates for the Windows operating system, for both the server and desktop editions.Overall, Microsoft has issued six bulletins in July's "Patch Tuesday" collection of software fixes. Microsoft issues these collections on the second Tuesday of each month, hence the name "Patch Tuesday."Two of the patches are marked as critical, meaning they address defects in Microsoft's software that could be readily exploited by malicious attackers to compromise systems. One of the critical bulletins is for IE, and the other one is for Windows.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Vulnerability in AVG security toolbar puts IE users at risk
Bad design decisions could have enabled malware infections, researchers from CERT/CC said Read More
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Thieves steal 40,000 gadgets from Samsung factory in Brazil
A Samsung factory in Brazil was robbed of at least $6.3 million in hardware by a gang of about 20 armed people at around midnight on Monday, according to reports from local media. The Samsung facility is located in Campinas, a city of roughly 1 million people located about 60 miles northwest of São Paulo. Brazilian police told O Globo that the criminals stopped a van full of employees on the way to the facility, used their stolen ID badges to gain entry, and kept two of the victims as hostages. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Gartner scales back Windows forecast | Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors' Social Security numbers +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
Chinese hackers switched targets to U.S. experts on Iraq
A sophisticated Chinese hacker group that had been stealing information from U.S. policy experts on nearby Southeast Asia suddenly changed targets last month to focus on the Middle East -- Iraq, in particular -- security researchers said Monday.The group, called "Deep Panda," switched from exploiting one area of expertise to another because of the march of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) towards Baghdad, and the collapse of Iraq's security forces in the north and west of the country."The networks [of the think tanks] had been previously compromised, but Deep Panda pivoted to target systems and individuals with ties to the Middle East and Iraq," said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and CTO of CrowdStrike, an Irvine, Calif. security company, of the overnight switch. The shift in Deep Panda's targeting happened on June 18, the day that ISIS began to attack the strategically important oil refinery at Baiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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Blue Shield discloses 18,000 doctors' Social Security numbers
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Android bug lets apps make rogue phone calls
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PF Chang's says breach was 'highly sophisticated criminal operation'
But the restaurant chain still hasn't said how many cards were affected or how the data was stolen Read More
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