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Memory scraping malware targets Oracle Micros point-of-sale customers

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A new malware program designed to steal payment card details from point-of-sale (PoS) systems is targeting businesses using Oracle Micros products.

Micros, which was acquired by Oracle last year, develops front and back office customer service systems that are popular in the hospitality, food and retail industries. Its technology is used at over 330,000 customer sites in 180 countries, according to the company.

Security researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro recently came across a highly configurable memory scraping malware program that they dubbed MalumPoS.

This kind of program monitors the memory of other processes for payment card track data—the information that’s encoded on the magnetic stripe of payment cards and which can be used to clone them.

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Microsoft fixes IE memory problems

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Internet Explorer is getting major repairs, as Microsoft has issued 41 patches to fix memory vulnerabilities in its browser.

The Internet Explorer patches are part of the company’s routine monthly release of security and bug fixes for its software products, called “Patch Tuesday.” Microsoft Office and both the desktop and server editions of Windows are also getting fixes in this batch.

Overall, Microsoft issued patches to cover 56 different vulnerabilities, which are bundled into nine separate security bulletins.

Three of the bulletins are marked as critical, meaning they fix vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious attackers without user intervention. System administrators should tend to critical vulnerabilities as quickly as possible. These bulletins cover Internet Explorer and both the server and desktop editions of Windows.

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IE zero-day attack delivers malware into memory then poofs on reboot

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On Friday, security researchers at FireEye identified a new IE zero-day exploit hosted on a hacked U.S. website that is being used for targeted drive-by download attacks. The malware exploiting IE is injected directly into PC memory instead of being written to disk; the campaign has been dubbed Operation Ephemeral Hydra. While the U.S.
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Infinitec Infinite USB Memory Drive review (Sean Hollister/Engadget)

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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Infinitec Infinite USB Memory Drive review  —  The idea behind Infinitec’s Infinite USB Memory Drive is actually quite straightforward, but we’ve found that when we tell friends and acquaintances about the unit, it often boggles their minds.  So, we’ll try to keep it real simple …

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