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SC Magazine story: apparently the Backoff malware was the culprit. 400 stores affected.   Also in more breach news:  coresecrutity blog implies that HomeDepot did a DIY  project on their security

What happened to Kmart? how did they get breached ? Kmart had an IT department with Anti-virus and firewalls? According to krebsonsecurity – again it was the Malware on the Point-of-Sale(POS) registers.   iSight consultants seem to have figured out some details of a POS malware called BlackPOS WSJ article We can help – just … Read more

 Securityweek story The company believes debit and credit card numbers have been compromised. Kmart’s News release:   http://www.kmart.com/ue/home/10.10.14_News_Release.pdf It seems to always be after the fact that further advanced technologies have been deployed, as well as IT security firms have now been hired. Lucky for any future Kmart shoppers -now security is being taken care … Read more

Here is a video of the FBI agent and the VP of threat research  Dmitri Alperovitch and FBI Supervisory Special Agent Keith Mularski.   If you want to just go to  the site http://bcove.me/vchfpcni  and goto minute 41 where the FBI agent discusses the specific case of infiltrating the Russian cyber crime ring and take it down. … Read more