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Heartland Payment Systems Breach – Why it likely happened
You may have heard about the recent large data breach with Heartland Payment Systems in which hackers planted malware to specifically capture TRACK 2 information…
Social Networking, Passwords & Privacy
We have been warning for a long time of the issue of adding our personal information to any social network. I use them by myself…
Virtualization Security Part 2
Server virtualization will become a dominant factor in the next three to five years in an effort to reduce operating costs and simplify business. One…
Sony's Home hacked
It is not that someone has hacked Sony CEO's house, we are talking about the Sony Playstation Home: Home is a virtual world for PlayStation 3…
Critical updated of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078
Today is not the second Tuesday of December, so we didn’t expect that Microsoft was going to publish any security bulletins until 2009. But given…
Microsoft Updates for November
This month two new security bulletins have been published ( MS08-068 and MS08-069 ) as part of the usual launch of Microsoft Updates. According to Microsoft's…
Anatomy of a Data Breach
In 2007 and 2008 the industry has seen an upsurge in data breaches affecting millions of consumers and causing corporations to pay heavily in fines.…