New point-of-sale malware distributed by Andromeda botnet

Computerworld Security: July 17, 2015
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New point-of-sale malware distributed by Andromeda botnet

Cybercriminals are casting increasingly wider nets in their search for new
point-of-sale systems to infect. This appears to be the case with a new memory
scraping malware program called GamaPoS that's distributed by a botnet known as
Andromeda.
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1. Vietnamese man gets 13 years for massive ID theft scheme
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2. ACLU asks court to immediately end NSA phone snooping
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3. Reddit to crack down on objectionable content
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Vietnamese man gets 13 years for massive ID theft scheme

A Vietnamese man linked to a data breach of 200 million personal records at a
subsidiary of credit monitoring firm Experian has been sentenced to 13 years in
prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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ACLU asks court to immediately end NSA phone snooping

A U.S. appeals court should immediately shut down the National Security Agency's
bulk collection of domestic telephone records because the practice is illegal,
the American Civil Liberties Union said.
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Reddit to crack down on objectionable content

Reddit, the self-appointed "front page of the Internet" and one of the Web's
most popular sites, is planning to crack down on objectionable content -- at
least in public areas of the site.
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