Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:12:16 +0000

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from Wawa customers is being sold at one of the underground’s most popular crime shops, which claims to have 30 million records to peddle from a new nationwide breach.

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Explained: the strengths and weaknesses of the Zero Trust model

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Zero Trust is an information security framework that insists its users “never trust, always verify.” Is this the best security model for organizations today? We examine its strengths and weaknesses.

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States sue over rules that allow release of 3D-printed gun blueprints

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 11:02:20 +0000

The government has flip-flopped, most recently proposing rules that would transfer regulation out of the hands of the State Department.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/JxB-qrD61WI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Seattle tries out mobile voting

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800

About 1.2 million Seattle area voters will be able to use their smartphone, laptop or a computer at their local library to vote in a current election this year.

This will be the first-time online voting is available to all eligible registered voters of a district, according to a foundation behind the initiative.

The King Conservation District in Washington State is the third region in the U.S. to partner with the non-profit Tusk Philanthropies on a national effort to expand mobile voting, and Washington is the fifth state to pilot mobile voting in general. The King Conservation District is a state environmental agency that includes Seattle and 33 other cities, but it is separate from the King County Elections agency and operates under a different budget.

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Gezielte Phishing-Attacken auf dem Vormarsch – diese Tipps schieben den Riegel vor

Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:19:11 +0000

Aktuelle Phishingwellen beweisen es – die Cyberkriminellen sind kreativ. Nun muss man sich zum Beispiel auch vor Phishing-SMS-Nachrichten in Acht nehmen: im Namen von DHL werden aktuell Kurznachrichten verschickt mit dem Hinweis, dass ein Paket im Verteilerzentrum liege und für zwei Euro dieses seinen Weg weiterführen könne. Über einen Link soll der Empfänger dann diesen [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/WNDU5Sh4zvs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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