Tag Archives: credit card

Organized Crime Hackers Hit OneStopParking.com

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Carmelo

According to KrebsOnSecurity, OneStopParKing has been breached. Many banks reported to Brian that cards with fraudulent charges have all been used at OneStopParking.com. The stolen card data that bank sources traced back are among hundreds or thousands that went on … Continue reading →

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Staples Follow-Up

Posted on December 20, 2014 by Carmelo

Back in October, it was announced that banks were investigating Staples based on fraudulent card activity. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail stores. Upon … Continue reading →

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20 Bucks Buys You 1,000 Node Bot Army

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Carmelo

According to the Dell SecureWorks report, for $20 you can purchase a small bot army of 1,000 computers. Findings in the deep web also include that the there is excellent customer service! Master those basics people and you will gain … Continue reading →

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Honeywell Point-of-Sale Systems Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Carmelo

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Honeywell OPOS Suite. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific … Continue reading →

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Hypercom of Scottsdale, Arizona’s Equinox Payments

Posted on December 12, 2014 by Carmelo

Equinox is working with customers, distributors, and channel partners to replace the certificates to return terminals to an operational state after all payment terminals bricked themselves. Why? Because cryptographic certificates used in the devices has expired en masse. Many merchants … Continue reading →

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Hey Bebe!

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Carmelo

According to an article written by Brian Krebs, it sounds like Bebe is undergoing a credit/debit breach investigation. The data copied from the magnetic stripe on the backs of credit cards, which bad-guys can use to write to blank cards … Continue reading →

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There is no CyberSecurity?

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Carmelo

60 Minutes has a video on cyberthieves stealing your credit card information. This is a must watch for everybody who has a debit/credit card; a must watch for every merchant and service provider. The 15 minute video talks of the … Continue reading →

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Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard version 3.0

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Carmelo

I’ve been doing some extensive studying for the PCI DSS v 3 and there is a vast improvement on the requirements. There are 6 goals of PCI Remove sensitive authentication data and limit data retention. This milestone targets a key … Continue reading →

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Contactless Payment Cards Will Approve Foreign Currency Transactions of up to 999,999.99

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Carmelo

“With just a mobile phone we created a POS terminal that could read a card through a wallet,” explains Martin Emms, from the NewCastle University research team during the 2014 ACM CCS Conference held in the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, … Continue reading →

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Payment Card with Smart Chip? So What?

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Carmelo

Over the past week, at least three U.S. financial institutions reported receiving tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent credit and debit card transactions coming from Brazil and hitting card accounts stolen in recent retail heists… The problem with that … Continue reading →

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