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There’s generally not much love being lost between credit card companies and providers of retail services that rely heavily on credit card transactions. The credit card companies recently began embedding chips in their cards that forced every retailer to upgrade their point-of-sale (PoS) systems at great expense. The theory is that credit cards embedded with chips will result in better security because the data on the card is encrypted. However, regardless of whether a credit card has a chip every card still has a magnetic stripe on the back of the card. This was intended to make it simpler for

The closer we get to tax day in the United States, the more likely we are to see criminals take advantage of the activity around tax-related documents. We've covered these scams before, here and here, and we predicted tax-related trouble in this blog here. Just as expected, there's a new IRS related scam making the rounds. It works like this: Emails with a malicious Word document arrive in the potential victim's inbox. There are several variants with subject lines such as, Click here to download a pdf document with over 800 sample subject lines for IRS related spam. 'You are

A new strain of ransomware named Kirk has been observed and analyzed by researchers. Kirk Ransomware targets 625 file types for encryption, and like most ransomware, it then demands payment from the victim to decrypt those files. But despite the similarities, Kirk isn't your standard ransomware. As of this writing, it remains unclear how Kirk is being distributed. It is known that Kirk disguises itself as the Low Orbital Ion Cannon, which is an open source network stress tool (or DDoS attack tool, depending on your intentions). Kirk Ransomware executable is named 'loic_win32.exe,' and when executed, it will generate an