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500,000 Credit Cards Compromised at Irish Firm

The Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has sent inspectors to the offices of LoyaltyBuild in Ennis, Co. Clare, after it was revealed that the credit card data of 500,000 users in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe had been stolen. Speaking on Newstalk this morning, Mr Hawkes told Pat Kenny that the criminals obtained “full credit […]

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Mystery Malware is an Airborne Infection?

Security experts have spent the past week discussing the extraordinary claims by researcher Dragos Ruiu that he has discovered a sophisticated malware that infects BIOS, operates across multiple OSs, persists despite efforts to remove it, covers its tracks and – most surprisingly – uses ultrasonic audio signalling to overcome air gaps. It’s the stuff of […]

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Digital Attack Map shows DDOS Attacks

This week, Google are co-hosting a conference in New York titled conflict Conflict in a Connected World. The summit brings together “hacktivists,” security experts, entrepreneurs, dissidents and others to explore the changing nature of conflict and how online tools and can both harm and protect. We’re also assessing what might be done to better protect […]

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Adobe Worries

Patch Tuesday used to be just a Microsoft thing, but other companies have gotten involved recently, and this week Adobe released security fixes for Robohelp as well as Adobe Acrobat and Reader. But if you’re thinking this is in response to Adobe’s recent hacking, I’m afraid it’s not.  Security patches take weeks to prepare and […]

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Youth Defence Site Hacked

While the abortion debate in Ireland isn’t technology related, this story is .. Youthdefence.ie is the site of an organisation (Youth Defence) described as: an Irish organisation that opposes legalisation of abortion. It was founded after the 1992 X case established abortion rights in the case of the mother’s life being at risk. It shares […]

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Debian User? Check Your Repositories

If you’re a Debian user you may need to verify which repositories you’re using. Apparently one of the unofficial Debian multimedia depositories was using the domain debian-multimedia.org. Unfortunately the domain lapsed and is no longer pointing to valid Debian packages. Not sure if you’re using it or not? Simply run this command in a terminal: […]

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