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Vera Bradley Taking Action to Address Potential Data Breach Involving Payment Cards at Stores – Lake City Tribune

January 15, 2017/in Internet Security

Lake City Tribune

Vera Bradley Taking Action to Address Potential Data Breach Involving Payment Cards at Stores
Lake City Tribune
Vera Bradley (VRA) said it is investigating a potential security breach involving customer data at its retail stores over the summer. The company said it was informed of a potential issue by law enforcement on Sept. 15. and hired a computer security …

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Black Friday: What to watch out for when you hit the stores

November 23, 2016/in Internet Security

Here’s the first of three pieces we’ll be publishing this Thanksgiving weekend, to keep you more secure right into the New Year and beyond.
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DIY store’s poisoned search engine returns nasty results

June 10, 2016/in Internet Security

Good luck searching for a nail on the site of Castorama, the French DIY retailer: results include something about Satan’s ungodly glory.
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Trojanized Android apps flood third-party stores, compromise phones

November 4, 2015/in Computer Security

Attackers are creating rogue versions of popular Android applications that compromise the security of devices and are extremely hard to remove.

Researchers from mobile security firm Lookout have found more than 20,000 samples of such trojanized apps. They’re typically fully functional copies of top Android applications like Candy Crush, Facebook, Google Now, NYTimes, Okta, SnapChat, Twitter or WhatsApp, but with malicious code added to them.

The goal of these rogue apps is to aggressively display advertisements on devices. A scary development though is that, unlike traditional adware, they root the devices where they get installed in order to prevent users from removing them.

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