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Target’s move to chip and pin seeks to assure consumers

Target's rollout of chip and pin for its payment cards will begin next year

Adobe patches actively exploited vulnerability in Flash Player

The vulnerability was used in attacks against users in Syria, but will likely see wider exploitation, Kaspersky Lab researchers said

‘Francophoned’ cybertheft operation reportedly back in action

Attackers steal funds from French organizations using spear phishing, information-snatching malware and rogue phone calls

Self-taught hackers rule

Netgear patch said to leave backdoor problem in router

A security researcher claims Netgear's firmware update further hides the backdoor, but doesn't remove it

Cisco announces security service linked with new operations centers

Managed security services provided through SOCs in N.C. and Australia

Web apps and point-of-sale were leading hacker targets in 2013, says Verizon

The telco's annual data breach report incorporates data from more sources than ever before

Satellite communication systems rife with security flaws, vulnerable to remote hacks

Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in satellite communications devices used in the defense, maritime, aerospace and other sectors

Michaels says breach at its stores affected nearly 3M payment cards

Another 400,000 cards at subsidiary Aaron Brothers may have been affected

Don’t overlook URL fetching agents when fixing Heartbleed flaw on servers, researchers say

TLS clients are also vulnerable to Heartbleed memory leaking attacks, including server-side applications that fetch user-supplied URLs