If you haven’t noticed, this is an absolutely fantastic time to be a hacker. The components are cheap, the software is usually free, and there’s so much information floating around online about how to pull it all together that even beginners can produce incredible projects their first time out of the gate. It’s no exaggeration…

Visa is actively going after Magecart groups, but also deploying new technologies to safeguard payment card data. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for ZDNet: Attacks on Citrix appliances have intensified this week, and multiple threat actors have now joined in and are launching attacks in the hopes of compromising a high-value target, such as a corporate network, government server, or public institution. In a report published today, FireEye says that among all the attack…

Sitting for long periods isn’t great, so JLR wants to trick your body into thinking it’s walking. …read more Source:: CNet

The university underemployed more than 1,000 students — primarily undergraduates in computer science and engineering — in order to avoid paying union benefits, UAW Local 2865 says. From a report: The University of California at Berkeley owes student workers $5 million in back pay, a third-party arbitrator ruled on Monday, teaching assistants at the university…

Are publicly released proof-of-concept exploits more helpful for system defenders — or bad actors? …read more Source:: Threatpost

A binary asteroid has been leaking dust into our atmosphere, but if it totally cracks up we could have problems. …read more Source:: CNet

Alan Buis of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, writes: There’s an old saying that “the proof is in the pudding,” meaning that you can only truly gauge the quality of something once it’s been put to a test. Such is the case with climate models: mathematical computer simulations of the various factors that interact to affect…

Are publicly-released PoC exploits good or bad? Why is the Joker malware giving Google a headache? The Threatpost team discusses all this and more in this week’s news wrap. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Unimax says no customer data has been compromised. …read more Source:: CNet