UK Regulator Fines Equifax £500,000 Over 2017 Data Breach

Atlanta-based consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has been issued a £500,000 fine by the UK’s privacy watchdog for its last year’s massive data breach that exposed personal and financial data of hundreds of millions of its customers.

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Magecart strikes again, this time at electronics retailer Newegg

Code has been discovered siphoning credit card numbers from consumer technology retail website Newegg, according to security researchers from two cybersecurity companies. In reports published Wednesday by RiskIQ and Volexity, researchers discovered instances of code liked to the operators of Magecart, a group that has been behind a slew of recent, high-profile credit card number breaches. Thieves have been siphoning credit card data since Aug. 14, when a piece of Javascript was inserted into Newegg’s payment sites. That code pulled credit card numbers and sent them to a site with a similar URL — neweggstats[.]com. According to Volexity, the code wasn’t removed from the Newegg payment site until Tuesday. Newegg is an extremely popular retailer, ranking 161 on Alexa’s list of top websites in the U.S. According to SimilarWeb, the site receives 50 million visitors a month. “Over an entire month of skimming, we can assume this attack claimed a […]

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The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – Five Eyes Security Alliance, Google and Your Offline Purchases, Privacy by Default in Firefox

This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for September 10, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket.  This episode was hosted by … Continue reading The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – Five Eyes Security Alliance, Google and Your Offline Purchases, Privacy by Default in Firefox

Google Secretly Tracks What You Buy Offline Using Mastercard Data

Over a week after Google admitted the company tracks users’ location even after they disable location history, it has now been revealed that the tech giant has signed a secret deal with Mastercard that allows it to track what users buy offline.

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The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – ATM Cashout Attacks, Mobile Phone Voicemail Security, Google Location Tracking

This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for August 20, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions and Silent Pocket.  This episode was hosted by Tom… Continue reading The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – ATM Cashout Attacks, Mobile Phone Voicemail Security, Google Location Tracking