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Krebs: Why Apple Pay is a fraudster’s friend

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Security expert Brian Krebs has an enlightening and rather frightening new post headlined: “Apple Pay: Bridging Online and Big Box Fraud.” It begins:

Lost amid the media firestorm these past few weeks about fraudsters turning to Apple Pay is this stark and rather unsettling reality: Apple Pay makes it possible for cyber thieves to buy high-priced merchandise from brick-and-mortar stores using stolen credit and debit card numbers that were heretofore only useful for online fraud.

Krebs takes us through a detailed explanation of why this has happened and who is to blame.

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Network World Paul McNamara

My friend put my flash drive into his security tool infected computer. Should I not use it anymore?

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I tried putting it into an old computer and nothing, but I want to make sure it won’t spread through my flash drive.

Phishing scams find ‘friend’ in social media – Times Union

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Promises of a free iPad or the chance to see who’s viewed your Facebook profile tempt you from your Facebook wall. Friends shared these offers with you, or so it seems, making you think “they must be legit,” right? Wrong. These are viruses — worms that …
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how can i get rid of a virus that causes a pop up when my friend starts his computer. its says security system?

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when he starts his computer an ad pops up pretending to be his security system. it says he has spyware and he needs to buy their program to get rid of it. it wants him to give them his credit card number. it says it is security systems. does anybody know how to get rid of it?