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TCM Bank, a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM is a subsidiary of Washington, D.C.-based ICBA Bancard Inc., which helps community banks provide a credit card option to their customers using bank-branded...

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HP Inc has posted an update to address a pair of serious security vulnerabilities in its InkJet printers. The firmware update patches CVE-2018-5924 and CVE-2018-5925, two flaws that can be exploited by printing a file that triggers a stack or static buffer overflow, giving you the ability to then execute malicious code on the targeted printer. In total, HP says the patch will need to be applied to some 225 different models of inkjet printers across its...

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Monero (XMR) has become the target for hackers over the past few days. Recently, BCFocus reported about a vulnerability in the Monero wallet that allowed hackers to loot XMR from crypto exchanges. This time, it is said that over 200,000 routers have been hacked using a malware in Brazil to secretly mine Monero (XMR). The online hackers are said to have targeted a particular brand of routers, named MicroTik. Simon Kenin, a researcher from TrustWave, found...

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The confidential medical information of more than 400 patients has been found in an abandoned aged care facility that was operated by the New South Wales government, theABC has reported. The facility was once the Garrawarra Centre for Aged Care in Helensburgh, 45km south of Sydney, which according to the ABC is operating a 120-bed dementia-specific facility nearby. It is believed the documents, containing pain and incontinence charts, social worker reports, doctors' referrals, hospital admission...

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Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in the Edge browser that could be abused against older versions to steal local files from a user's computer. The good news is that social engineering is involved in exploiting the flaw, meaning the attack cannot be automated at scale, and, hence, present a smaller level of danger to end users. Discovered by Netsparker security researcher Ziyahan Albeniz, the vulnerability involves the Same-Origin Policy (SOP) security feature that all browser support. View...

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The Bank of Thailand (BOT) has confirmed that hackers have stolen information of more than 120,000 customers in a massive data breach into two major commercial banks. Cybersecurity operators at BOT has vowed to step up security measures and oversight after Kasikornbank and Krung Thai Bank reported cyber attacks during the Buddhist Lent holiday last weekend, and BOT confirmed the attacks on Wednesday. However, executives of both banks said no suspicious transactions took place. Krung...

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The Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet, touted as an "unhackable" system, appears to have been hacked a week after launch. Backed by technology personality John McAfee, the Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet claims to have "fortress-like" security and the product's "security is absolute and that the wallet cannot be hacked or penetrated by outside attacks." Available for $120, the hardware connects to an online dashboard for users to keep an eye on their funds and access their cryptocurrency. The device and...

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The British government has sunk £100m into efforts to link up cops’ IT systems, boost resource-sharing and develop digital forensics. The UK's police forces have been battling to improve outdated systems for years. Multiple annual reports into the state of policing have concluded that cops lag far behind in their use of tech, and that failure to fix this puts public safety at risk. In a bid to address the problem, the Home Office launched...

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A hacking group is attempting to carry out targeted attacks against nation states while at the same time using the same infrastructure to carry out spam campaigns with the intention of delivering malware. Active since at least February 2018, the attackers are using phishing attacks to target governmental organizations of the UK, Spain, Russia, and the US. The group behind these attacks have been dubbed Gorgon Group and they're believed to operate out of Pakistan....

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Barack Obama's cybersecurity czar, Michael Daniel, acknowledges this much: The Trump administration is doing a lot for cybersecurity. But it's not in spite of the former president's administration, Daniel said in an interview Thursday. It's because of what Obama's team accomplished, he said. "Every administration has built on the successes and lessons from previous administrations," said Daniel, who was the White House cybersecurity coordinator during Obama's last four years in office. He now serves as the head of the...

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