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Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party

Attackers may have snapped user locations and activity information, message warns Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security Read the original…

Fraud Prevention Is a Latency Game

There is a time window for every act of online fraud. When a transaction occurs, a fraud system must review it and decide if it’s legitimate before the payment clears or if the account could be compromised. That window happens…

A Quiet Breach of a Familiar Tool, Notepad++

For six months last year the update system of Notepad++, one of the world’s most widely used Windows text editors, was quietly subverted by hackers linked by investigators to the Chinese state. The attackers used their access not to disrupt…