“Root cause” – the majority of ransomware attacks are extremely low risk for the cybercriminal and easy to launch; they are insanely profitable; the infrastructure and personnel used to develop and launch ransomware attacks are globally distributed and largely not subject to US laws, regulations,...
“The only explanation is that people are paying ransoms, restoring from backups, or reinstalling PCs without filing a complaint with authorities,” Cimpanu writes. It’s difficult to know how what percentage of ransomware victims paid the ransom or were able to restore from backups, but o...
Sorry for the long-winded explanation, but I hope it will help anyone with APC UPS equipment which requires PCBE and doesn’t already know about this particular security maintenance issue or the updated version of PCBE that was released recently. BriFebruary 25, 2013...
” saidMinhee Cho, public relations director of ProPublica, in an email to KrebsOnSecurity. “But, by rewarding hackers, these companies have created a perverted cycle that encourages more ransomware attacks, which in turn frighten more businesses and government...
The vulnerability discussed in the article is using the static data on the chip to create working Track I/Track II data for a mag-stripe card. As a card issuer, depending on the payment networks encountered by your cardholder base*, it’s easy enough to counter this vulnerability by declini...
If Mr. Holder is impeached or resigns, then a new AG will have to be brought in under a more conservative congressional approval cycle and in an election year. With the current fervor over gay marriage (like we don’t have enough to deal with in this country, still trying to figure ou...
So two cost challenges: Replacing all current terminals; replacing all terminals on a fixed cycle in an attempt to stay ahead of the cypto curve. Alphonse October 28, 2014 EMV wipes out counterfeit fraud…the issuing banks that misconfigured can fix easily – they just need to update option...