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Landry's investigates card data breach
Chron.com Landry's is working with its card payment processor to investigate reports that unauthorized payments were charged to an untold number of credit and debit card holders who dined at some of its restaurants, the company said Thursday. In a statement, the … |
Credit card hackers are said to have targeted a number of hotels, possibly as far back as February 2015.
Naked Security – Sophos
Home Depot said Tuesday it was investigating a possible breach of its systems holding customer payment information tied to credit and debit cards.
“We’re looking into some unusual activity and we are working with our banking partners and law enforcement to investigate,” Home Depot spokeswoman Paula Drake said via email.
The source of the possible breach, as well as the number of people who might be affected, was not immediately clear.
Home Depot is “aggressively gathering facts” and will notify customers immediately if it determines there was a breach, she said.
If there was, it would be the latest in a string of high-profile attacks this past year that have hit companies including Target, P.F. Chang’s China Bistro and Neiman Marcus.
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University of Cambridge investigates side channel attacks on Android phones
ElectronicsWeekly.com android-coordinate-system-axis-device We covered this one on our University Research blog, but it is worth highlighting again, I feel. Researchers at Cambridge University have been evaluating the feasibility of malware-based ”side channel attacks” on … |