Visa has removed Heartland Payment Systems and RBS WorldPay -- two payment processors that have announced massive data breaches in recent months -- from its list of service providers compliant with payment industry guidelines.
The campaign of Norm Coleman, the Minnesota Republican senator locked in a vicious recount battle to retain his seat, told political donors on Wednesday that they should cancel their credit cards after financial information of contributors was posted online.
An organization that sells consumer information, including names, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and credit histories, has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to properly screen potential customers, leading to the sale of at least 318 reports to ID thieves.
Mozilla on Wednesday issued Firefox 3.0.7, which fixes multiple security issues that could potentially enable an attacker to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain sensitive information, or spoof the location bar, according to an advisory from US-CERT Thursday.
Online photography store iStockphoto warned of a phishing attack targeted against its website on Wednesday, "We strongly urge all users who logged in at some point today to change their passwords," the company said on its website. "In addition, do not open any site mail for the next 24 hours." Attackers created a fake iStockphoto login screen, saved users' credentials on a malicious server then redirected them back to the website's main page. The company said that no financial information was breached. — AM
The blueprints for President Obama's helicopter, Marine One, were downloaded from a peer-to-peer (P2P) network and onto a computer in Tehran, Iran, a file-sharing monitoring company has revealed.
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