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Gone: Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Mercado Pago. Of six payments firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains. Continue reading Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses all but one payment company
Selling items online? Watch our for people who suddenly offer to help! Continue reading Serious Security: Beware eBay scrapers promising to help you with ‘viral promotions’
Thinkpads are great, especially the old ones. You find a T420, and you can have a battery hanging off the back, a battery in the optical drive bay, and for some old Thinkpads, there’s a gigantic ‘slice’ battery that doubles the thickness of your laptop. Here’s the most batteries in …read more
Birth certificates, photographs, names, email addresses, credit card details, social security numbers. All to be found on used hard drives for sale on eBay.
Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
Continue reading Sensitive data can lurk on second-hand hard drives
Selling your old hard drive on eBay may sound like a good way to squeeze a few extra bucks from unused hardware, but not if you don’t erase the data properly. A combined team of data recovery experts from Blanco and Ontrack have conducted tests o… Continue reading 42% of used drives sold on eBay hold sensitive data, researchers find
42% of used drives sold on eBay are holding sensitive data, with 15% containing personally identifiable information (PII), according to Blancco Technology Group. Conducted in conjunction with partner, Ontrack, the Blancco Technology Group study analyze… Continue reading A surprising number of used drives sold on eBay hold sensitive data
A US court has convicted two Romanian hackers belonging to the Bayrob malware gang after they infected over 400,000 computers around the world, and stole millions of dollars.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Continue reading Bayrob malware gang convicted of infecting over 400,000 computers worldwide, stealing millions through online auction fraud
eBay is adding Google Pay as a payment option along with Apple Pay on its platform.
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Continue reading eBay Now Lets Customers Pay With Google Play
At $100, the old-gen iPhone encryption-cracking tools are a bargain to hackers looking to pick up leftover forensics or police Wi-Fi data. Continue reading For sale: iPhone hacking tool, one previous (not very careful) owner
Buying heavily discounted, popular software from second-hand sources online has always been something of an iffy security proposition. But purchasing steeply discounted licenses for cloud-based subscription products like recent versions of Microsoft Office can be an extremely risky transaction, mainly because you may not have full control over who has access to your data. Continue reading Dirt-Cheap, Legit, Windows Software: Pick Two