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FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant PAX Technology

Krebs on Security

federal investigators today raided the Florida offices of PAX Technology , a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. FBI agents entering PAX Technology offices in Jacksonville today. Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, PAX Technology Inc. organizations. Source: WOKV.com.

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IronNet Has Shut Down

Schneier on Security

After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. IronNet never seemed to have any special technology going for it. That always troubled me. In any case, it was never clear what those ideas were.

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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like.shop,top and.xyz

Krebs on Security

Image: Interisle Cybercrime Supply Chain 2014. ” In virtually all previous spam reports, Interisle found the top brands referenced in phishing attacks were the largest technology companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google and PayPal. The top 5 new gTLDs, ranked by cybercrime domains reported.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. For example, the ICT industry (Information, Communication, Technology) was the 5th highest paying with an average salary of $104,874 (dollars are Aussie, take off about 30% for USD). Intro: This Industry Rocks! Banking is below that. Medical even lower.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. “My nickname was MikeMike, and I worked with Dmitri Golubov and made technologies for him,” Shefel said.

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FEMA IT Specialist Charged in ID Theft, Tax Refund Fraud Conspiracy

Krebs on Security

An information technology specialist at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was arrested this week on suspicion of hacking into the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 2014, stealing personal data on more than 65,000 UPMC employees, and selling the data on the dark web.

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Tyler Technologies finally paid the ransom to receive the decryption key

Security Affairs

Tyler Technologies has finally decided to paid a ransom to obtain a decryption key and recover files encrypted in a recent ransomware attack. Tyler Technologies, Inc. “When the ransomware encrypted Tyler Technologies’ files, they appended an extension similar to ‘ tylertech911-f1e1a2ac.'”