Tag Archive for: Card

Name.com suffers breach, credit card data accessed, encryption in place (phew!)

Domain registrar and web hosting company Name.com, part of the Demand Media group, has suffered a data breach. Crooks have apparently made off with data up to and including credit card numbers…but it sounds as though everything was encrypted, which is a silver lining.
Naked Security – Sophos

Romanian payment card crook gets 21 months in the US – $10M losses inflicted on 150,000 card holders

Judgement Day for Romanian cybercriminal Cezar Butu. He’ll serve 21 months in a US prison for his role in a $ 10M carding heist against sandwich giant Subway and other US businesses.
Naked Security – Sophos

Hacking, the card game, debuts at Black Hat – CNET News

LAS VEGAS — There’s much more to hacking than just the Hollywood portrayal of a speed typing contest, say the computer security professionals who’ve developed a new hacking-themed card game called Control-Alt-Hack. Control-Alt-Hack is based on …
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How to use Jonathan’s card to buy yourself an iPad (Sam Odio/Sam Odio’s blog)

Sam Odio / Sam Odio’s blog:
How to use Jonathan’s card to buy yourself an iPad  —  Jonathan Stark recently released his Starbucks card to the public as a social experiment.  It was quickly picked up by CNN, Time, and many others.  For those of you who are living under a rock, here’s what is going on …

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