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Restaurant Chain Confirms Payment Card Breach at 37 Managed Locations

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A restaurant chain has confirmed that a payment card breach affected more than three dozen of the locations it currently manages. On 14 April, Best American Hospitality Corp. (BAHC) revealed it had received a report indicating someone had stolen payment cards used at some of the corporate-affiliated locations for Shoney’s, an “All American Style Family […]… Read More

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5 Things You Should Know about Gift Card Fraud

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In 2016, the U.S. gift card industry was worth $127 billion. That figure is expected to reach $160 billion by 2018. It’s little wonder why. Everyone loves them! From the retailer’s point of view, customers who shop using a gift card oftentimes spend more than the initial value of the card. As for the customers […]… Read More

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Sysadmin Accused of Causing $100K in Damages to Former Employer with “Time Bomb”

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A system administrator is accused of having caused its former employer $100,000 in damages using malicious code equipped with a “time bomb” feature. Allegro Microsystems, a LLC company which makes and markets high-performance semiconductors, says Nimesh Patel of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts tampered with its servers back in January 2016. For his alleged crimes, Patel faces one […]… Read More

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Microsoft zero-day vulnerability was being exploited for cyber-espionage

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Two separate attack campaigns exploited the same Microsoft zero-day vulnerability to infect users with spyware and crimeware. But mystery shrouds which country might have been behind the state-sponsored attacks.
David Bisson reports.
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LinkedIn Scam Wants Job Seekers to Hand Over Their CVs

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Fraudsters have designed a new LinkedIn scam that uses phishing emails and a fake website to trick job seekers into handing over their CVs. The scam begins when a user receives a phishing email disguised as a LinkedIn email. In their message, the fraudsters inform the recipient that a company is “urgently seeking for immediate […]… Read More

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Microsoft Says “So Long” to Windows Vista

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Microsoft has announced the end of Windows Vista support and is urging customers who still use the operating system to upgrade as soon as possible. The Redmond-based technology giant finalized Windows Vista’s end of term in a blog post on 11 April: “Windows Vista customers are no longer receiving new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or […]… Read More

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Hackers Accessed Third-Party Amazon Sellers’ Accounts Using Stolen Credentials

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Hackers accessed third-party Amazon sellers’ accounts using stolen login credentials they purchased on dark web marketplaces. CJ Rosenbaum, a lawyer based in New York who is representing some of the affected Amazon sellers, told The Wall Street Journal that more than a dozen of his clients lost close to half their monthly sales due to hackers. […]… Read More

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