Tuesday, 07 October 2025

It was reported recently that the hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. belong to a sophisticated Russian syndicate that has stolen more than 160 million credit-card numbers from retailers over seven years. Commenting on this, Mark Bower, VP, product management and solutions architecture, Voltage Security says:

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Tyler Reguly, security research manager says:

“Today is like any other patch Tuesday - the prudent advice is to patch Word and IE as soon as possible. The Microsoft Security and Defense blog states that the limited distribution of Publisher will act as a natural limiter, preventing wide spread exploitation. I wonder if the introduction of the new Office 365 Home Premium subscription, which will give home users access to Publisher on every system, could potentially change that line of thinking going forward?

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LONDON, UK: Tripwire, Inc. has  announced detection for Heartbleed (CVE–2014-0160), the OpenSSL vulnerability announced on April 8, 2014, by Codenomicon and Neel Mehta, a security researcher for Google. All Tripwire vulnerability management products, including Tripwire® IP360™, Tripwire® PureCloud and Tripwire® SecureScan, provide authenticated and unauthenticated checks for Heartbleed.

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  6. Information Security Forum launches Threat Horizon 2016
  7. AppRiver offers advice following German data theft
  8. Cloud World Forum explores the hybrid cloud concept
  9. Dr. Eric Cole inducted to the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame
  10. Cleversafe and Avere Systems in joint strategic storage partnership
  11. Terrence Gareau leads DDoS Security Research Team
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  14. Thunder CGN, Thunder HVA, and AX CGN product lines achieve optimum compliance
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