Security News

Criminals hacked chip-and-PIN system by perfecting researchers' PoC attack (Help Net Security)
2015-10-20 13:40

When in 2010 a team of computer scientists at Cambridge University demonstrated how the chip and PIN system used on many modern payment cards can be bypassed by making the POS system accept any PIN as...

Facebook Notifying Users of Targeted, Nation-State Attacks (Threatpost)
2015-10-19 17:29

Facebook will inform users when it believes their account has been targeted by an attacker or compromised by a nation-state campaign.

Facebook starts warning users of state-sponsored attacks against their accounts (Help Net Security)
2015-10-19 08:13

Facebook will begin alerting its users when their account is being targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state. "While we have always taken steps to se...