Security News

Technical foul: Amazon suffers data breach days before Black Friday, emails world+dog
2018-11-21 12:40

$1tn biz doesn't answer very basic questions - like how or why it happened Amazon has suffered a data breach just days before Black Friday – and the company was tight-lipped about whether it had...

Every day is Black Friday
2018-11-20 13:49

Scammers don't stop trying to dupe you or take their foot off the gas just because it's the day after Cyber Monday.

SMS 2FA database leak drama, MageCart mishaps, Black Friday badware, and more
2018-11-17 13:47

Plus, why is Kaspersky Lab getting into chess? Roundup What a week it has been: we had the creation of a new government agency, a meltdown flashback, and of course, Patch Tuesday.…

Ahead of Black Friday, Rash of Malware Families Takes Aim at Holiday Shoppers
2018-11-15 16:19

As consumers skip the store crowds in favor of online deals, cyberattackers have geared up to victimize them.

Online shopping fraud to surge during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
2018-11-15 09:31

New benchmark data from ACI Worldwide revealed a projected 14 percent increase in fraud attempts during the upcoming 2018 peak holiday season. Based on hundreds of millions of merchant...

Black Friday: When is a deal too good to be true?
2017-11-22 12:30

Black Friday, the American sales phenomenon that allegedly marked the time of year when retailers began to make a profit – moving from the ‘red’ to the ‘black’ – has increasingly become a fixture...

Online credit card fraud up 20% Black Friday to Cyber Monday (Help Net Security)
2016-12-02 12:45

Iovation released new data that shows card-not-present fraud increased significantly from Black Friday to Cyber Monday 2016 when compared to the same period in past years. Research shows a 20...

WordPress Plugins Leave Black Friday Shoppers Vulnerable (Threatpost)
2016-11-22 14:55

Researchers found a third of the top WordPress e-commerce plugins contain severe vulnerabilities tied to XSS cross-site scripting, SQL injection and file manipulation flaws.

Securing Black Friday sales: Is your business ready? (Help Net Security)
2016-11-08 13:00

Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the US, well-known for a variety of promotional sales. These are dependent on Internet connections working, servers coping with demand,...