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App Defect May Have Exposed First American Financial Customers’ Data

May 26, 2019
New ATM Skimming Tactic: Razor-Thin Cards
News // August 22, 2014

ATM skimmers are not losing their popularity among the ATM cyberthief set, but a new twist has emerged. The problem with many of today’s skimming devices is that it makes the ATM look different and it won’t take long before a sharp-eyed employee or customer...

Security Experts Share BlackPOS Experience
Merchant Innovation // March 11, 2014

Two security experts have shared a recent experience investigating the BlackPOS malware that is at the center of the growing merchant data-breach crisis. In an interview with KrebsOnSecurity, a technology security blog that has been investigating the data breaches, Tom Arnold and Paul Guthrie of cybersecurity...

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App Defect May Have Exposed First American Financial Customers’ Data

May 26, 2019
First American Financial, the real estate title insurance company, may have provided unauthorized access to the financial information of its customers. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal citing First American Financial, the firm said a design defect in one of its applications may have exposed the data of its customers. The company […]

New ATM Skimming Tactic: Razor-Thin Cards

August 22, 2014
ATM skimmers are not losing their popularity among the ATM cyberthief set, but a new twist has emerged. The problem with many of today’s skimming devices is that it makes...