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Up to 40,000 OnePlus customers potentially hit by credit card hack

January 23, 2018

Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has disclosed that up to 40,000 customers may have been affected by a recent compromise of the company’s checkout process. The attack was accomplished by implanting a rogue script into the company’s payment page code on oneplus.net. The script was intended to harvest credit card details while they were being entered by customers, … More Up to 40,000 OnePlus customers potentially hit by credit card hack

Two interesting cyberthreats targeting the Irish this week

January 19, 2018

ESET Ireland picks malware-carrying spam as Gaeilge and a Bitcoin-related pyramid scheme as the threats of the week to Irish computer users The cybersecurity company ESET Ireland comes across many cyberthreats each week, but some of them stick out due to their particularities. This week the first that stood out was a long spam email … More Two interesting cyberthreats targeting the Irish this week

Carphone Warehouse faces hefty fine for 2015 breach

January 18, 2018

British mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has been slapped with one of the heftiest fines – £400,000 – by the United Kingdom’s official data watchdog for a security breach dating back to 2015. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) concluded after a detailed enquiry spanning more than two years that the company’s lax approach to security had enabled a compromise … More Carphone Warehouse faces hefty fine for 2015 breach

Scammers and jobhunters

January 17, 2018

In The Guardian, Snighda Poonam recently explored the competition for jobs in general in India, with massive numbers of applicants chasing relatively small numbers of job opportunities. The article on The scammers gaming India’s overcrowded job market goes some way to explaining why so many find it hard to resist a career in call-centre scamming. Tech support … More Scammers and jobhunters