Thieves can guess your secret Visa card details in just seconds
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Distributed Guessing Attack Reels in Payment Card Data
A research paper describes vulnerabilities enabling distributed guessing attacks which allow an attacker to collect payment card data across a number of sites without triggering alerts. Continue reading Distributed Guessing Attack Reels in Payment Card Data
How to guess credit card security codes
That “short code” on the back of your credit card does make things harder for cybercrooks – but perhaps not that much harder. Continue reading How to guess credit card security codes
Controlling Your Instruments From A Computer: Doing Something Useful
Do you know how to harvest data from your bench tools, like plotting bandwidth from your oscilloscope with a computer? It’s actually pretty easy. Many bench tools make this easy using a standard protocol with USB to make the connection.
In the previous installment of this article we talked about the National Instruments VISA (Virtual Instrument Software Archetecture) standard for communicating with your instruments from a computer, and introduced its Python wrapper with a simple demonstration using a Raspberry Pi. We’ll now build on that modest start by describing a more useful application for a Raspberry Pi and a digital …read more
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How to Control Your Instruments From A Computer: It’s Easier Than You Think
There was a time when instruments sporting a GPIB connector (General Purpose Interface Bus) for computer control on their back panels were expensive and exotic devices, unlikely to be found on the bench of a hardware hacker. Your employer or university would have had them, but you’d have been more likely to own an all-analogue bench that would have been familiar to your parents’ generation.
The affordable instruments in front of you today may not have a physical GPIB port, but the chances are they will have a USB port or even Ethernet over which you can exert the same …read more
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malspam email Credit Card Details delivers Locky
The next in the never ending series of Locky downloaders is an email with the subject of Credit Card Details coming as usual from random companies, names and email addresses with a semi-random named zip attachment starting with VISA_ containing a … Continue reading →
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We have temporarily disabled your Credit/Debit Card – phishing
There are a few major common subjects in a phishing attempt. Lots of them are either PayPal, your Bank or your Credit Card, with a message saying some thing like : Urgent: Your card has been stopped ! There have … Continue reading →
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Giant Food Sees Giant Card Fraud Spike
Citing a recent and large increase in credit card fraud, Washington, DC-area grocer Giant Food says it will no longer allow customers to use credit cards when purchasing gift cards and reloadable or prepaid debit cards. Continue reading Giant Food Sees Giant Card Fraud Spike
Vulnerabilities Discovered in U.S. State Department’s Visa Database
Security experts have discovered vulnerabilities in a database where the U.S. State Department stores visa information. Reuters writes that the State Department first learned of the security flaws following an internal review of its computer systems several months ago. In a report, security experts warned the department that its Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) was at […]… Read More
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Spam offering fake Visa benefits, rewards leads to TeslaCrypt ransomware
Spam campaign baits users with Visa Total Rewards emails containing malware that leads to Trojan.Cryptolocker.N infections.Read More Continue reading Spam offering fake Visa benefits, rewards leads to TeslaCrypt ransomware