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A series of credit card breaches appears to have taken place which involve retailer Goodwill Industries.   According to Brian Krebs, Goodwill said it is working with the US Secret Service on an investigation into the reports. According to sources in the financial industry, multiple locations of Goodwill Industries stores have been identified as a likely point of compromise for an unknown number of credit and debit cards.   In a statement sent to KrebsOnSecurity,...

The Tails operating system has a number of critical vulnerabilities that can expose the identity of its users if properly finessed by an attacker.   According to The Register, Tails is a Debian Linux–based OS partially sponsored by Tor and designed to be used by journalists and others who want to keep their communications private, but the software's design is seriously flawed.   Exodus Intelligence said that the new code still left the zero-day flaws...

Whistle-blower Edward Snowden has called on supporters to spur development of easy-to-use technologies to subvert Government surveillance programs around the globe.   Addressing conference attendees on Saturday via video link from Moscow, said he intends to devote much of his time to promoting such technologies, including ones that allow people to communicate anonymously and encrypt their messages.   Speaking at Hackers On Planet Earth, or HOPE, Snowden was one of many talks detailing approaches for...

Malware is spreading through Linux and FreeBSD web servers, and uses various plugins to infect systems that are not up to date with security patches.   According to The Register, the “Mayhem” malware targets *nix servers and transmissions have been traced from compromised computers to two command and control (C&C) servers. So far 1,400 machines have been found to have fallen to the code, with potentially thousands more to come.   Once the malware exploits...

The tension in the Gaza strip has moved online, as Israeli websites have been defaced in the past week.   According to Hot For Security, the defacements said: “If you are a Hacker, Activist, a Human Right Organisation then hack israel websites and expose to the world their crimes.” Those apparently involved are the groups AnonGhost, Tunisian Hackers Team and Anonymous. The report claimed that the AnonGhost group had leaked alleged details of many Israeli Government web...

An Irish genealogy site left personal data available, according to the country’s Data Protection Commissioner.   The commissioner said his office had contacted the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht as soon as the issue was drawn to its attention, according to the Irish Times. A note on the website said the civil records search were “temporarily unavailable” and that further updates would be provided.   Hawkes expressed concern that “from the identity theft point of view”,...

The Wall Street Journal Facebook page was hacked early on Sunday morning, where hackers made two fakes post about the crashing of Air Force One and about Vice President Joe Biden addressing the nation in next 15 minutes.   According to Hackread, the page has 2,830,802 likes and showed a fake post about US Air Force plane having crashed over Russian airspace due to an air traffic signal problem. The second post talks about US Vice President Joe Biden being...

An international organised cybercrime network, composed mostly of Romanian citizens, was successfully taken down in Romania and France.   With the support of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, the network was suspected of sophisticated electronic payment crimes including intrusions into international non-cash payment systems through malware attacks, card data compromising and money laundering and drug trafficking.   Members of the network were using Remote Access Tools with key logger functionality to take over and...

More than 11,000 computers have been infected in just 24 hours by the Pushdo Trojan.   According to the Hacker News, Pushdo is primarily known for delivering financial malware such as ZeuS and SpyEye and was very prolific in 2007. But this new variant is being updated to leverage a new domain-generation algorithm as a fallback mechanism to its normal command-and-control (C&C) communication methods.   According to researchers at Bitdefender, about 6,000 compromised systems in the...

Microsoft is to terminate its Nokia X smartphone line, which has only been available since February.   The Android-powered device range was iherited as part of the acquisition of Nokia’s handset division, and said that in the near term, it plans to drive Windows Phone volume by targeting the more affordable smartphone segments with Lumia, reported the Guardian.   Microsoft will also discontinue Nokia’s Asha brand of feature phones and Nokia’s MixRadio music service.  ...