• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Nov-25-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on This gizmo knows your Amex number before you’ve received your new card

A device built by legendary hacker Samy Kamkar calls into question the security of payment cards as the U.S. continues to grapples with card fraud.Kamkar’s device, nicknamed MagSpoof, is about the size of a U.S. quarter, and it’s safe to […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Nov-25-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on This gizmo knows your Amex card number before you’ve received it

A device built by legendary hacker Samy Kamkar calls into question the security of payment cards as the U.S. continues to grapples with card fraud.
Kamkar’s device, nicknamed MagSpoof, is about the size of a U.S. quarter, and it’s safe to […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Nov-24-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Hilton says malware targeted its credit card system

Hilton Worldwide says it has identified and removed malware that targeted card payment systems at some of its hotels over a 17 week period from late 2014 to mid 2015.
The malware collected cardholder names, payment card numbers, security codes and expiration […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Nov-24-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on And then there were two: Another dangerous Dell root certificate discovered

The plot thickens: After Dell confirmed that one of its support tools installed a dangerous self-signed root certificate and private key on computers, users discovered a similar certificate deployed by a different Dell tool.The second certificate is called DSDTestProvider and […]