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Brick and Mortar Identity Theft Targets 40 million Accounts


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Brick and Mortar Identity Theft Targets 40 million Accounts
2013-12-20 01:15

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Brick and Mortar Identity Theft Targets 40 million Accounts

20304381_s Just when you thought that Holiday Identity Theft could only occur online, North American big-box retailer, Target Corporation, announces a massive security breach that could affect up to 40 million American and Canadian consumers.  How did this happen!?

It would seem that a retail economy so focused on ensuring the security of online shopping has left its doors wide open for identity thieves poised to find another means of entry.  Current details on how exactly the thieves hacked their way in is limited, but one can only assume that there was some sort of gaping breach in Target’s internal accounting security.  One further possibility is that the theft was an inside job, years in the making.

Current facts are as follows

The breach affects anyone who swiped their credit card at a Target checkout terminal between November 27th and December 15th.  Strangely enough, the breach does not affect anyone who shopped online at Target’s website.

What the culprits stole away with includes just about everything they’ll need to use any one of the 40 million credit cards: account numbers, customer names, expiration dates, even CVV security codes.  Target states that the breach has since been fixed; but, the necessary data is already in the wrong hands.  For those who have fallen victim to the crime, all that can be done at this point is a vigilant self-monitoring of their own accounts.

A New Target?

In an industry that’s increasingly dominated by online competition, this massive theft represents a major blow to Target Corporation and probably also many other big box retailers that consumers associate with the store.  More than that though, the theft represents a new line of thinking within the identity theft community (that is, if this sort of community even exists ;).

In other words, hackers seem to be taking a throwback approach to identity theft.  Because competition is tight, retailers have been forced to focus most of their efforts — security and otherwise — on their online sales channels.  This shifted focus may indeed be the reason Target’s identity thieves were able to sneak in, simply because no one thought that they would.  This development entails many broad scale implications that security experts the world around will need to take into consideration in the continual process of honing their own approach.

Antivirus security is much more than technical know-how and programming.  It’s also largely an act of social engineering.  Good hackers know how to exploit human behavior, and good computer security experts know how to anticipate this exploitation.  To be able to anticipate, we here at Emsisoft keep a keen eye on emerging trends.  We do this because we know that wherever there are computers, there needs to be computer security, and to provide it comprehensively we need to be able to adapt and evolve.

As for the Target security breach and just how many among the 40 million it will affect, it is still to early to tell.  Our recommendation to anyone who may have shopped at a Target location between Nov. 27th and Dec. 15th would be to keep a keen eye on potentially compromised accounts for at least the next month.  In some cases, it might even be wise to cancel the card and open a new account, which is a relatively painless process with most major providers — much less than being hacked.

In any event, Have a Great (Malware-Free) Holiday Shopping Season, both online and abroad!

 



Emsisoft Windows 8.1 Handbook Give-away
2013-12-20 01:17

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Emsisoft Windows 8.1 Handbook Give-away


The upcoming book “Windows 8.1 – Schritt für Schritt” (engl: Windows 8.1 – step by step) is featuring Emsisoft Anti-Malware and Emsisoft Online Armor in the section “How to make Windows more secure”.

The book is very easy to read and recommendable for Windows 8 novice and experienced users. Step by step, you learn everything you need to know about the new operating system; how to use apps; how to handle files and how tipps and tricks can help you with your daily work routines.

 

You can get a copy of the book (in German only) at the website of the publisher Vierfarben Verlag

OR:

You can win 1 of 3 German editions now!

All of you who are subscribed to our newsletter are now eligible for winning 1 of 3 books. Simply leave a comment about why you particulary like your Emsisoft product(s) in the German version of this post here. The lucky winners will be picked randomly out of all participants on Dec 23rd, 2013.



Stable Scan Engine Update Identifies Over 6000 New PUPs
2013-12-20 10:45

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Stable Scan Engine Update Identifies Over 6000 New PUPs

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Just this week, Emsisoft’s dedicated tech-team released a stable update to optimize our malware scanning engine’s signature database and to identify around 6000 new PUPs. A lot of time and effort went into this project, but in the end it was totally worth it, as its end result is an enhanced user experience for everyone running Emsisoft  — including all of us.

What is a PUP?

A PUP is a potentially unwanted program, and these days they come packaged in virtually every type of freeware. PUPs are those little things like toolbars, weather monitors, or registry cleaners that are innocuous enough on their own, but really add up when you install a whole bunch of them onto your computer.

A computer with too many PUPs will eventually slow down and eventually frustrate its user. Unfortunately, most PUPs sneak their way in when users install new freeware, as most of us just click INSTALL on repeat until the freeware’s installer is done. Those who design PUPs recognize and take advantage of this behavior, because it’s essentially a free way to spread their program.

By definition, PUPs are not malicious and not all of them are useless. Overtime, however, most computer users end up collecting dozens of PUPs that they don’t even know they have, which amounts to a lot of wasted space and resources.

What does this Update Do?

The new update is essentially a database cleanup, combined with the addition of new signatures that target PUPs bundled in freeware. Our tech-team basically went through everything the scanning engine knows, threw out anything that was outdated or irrelevant, and then added any new signatures the database needed to know in order to stay up to date with the world’s most recent malware and PUPs.

Some Specifics

Cleanup

This update removes hundreds of thousands of unnecessary trace signatures. This was accomplished by combining very specific signatures to more generic ones, as well as removing any signatures that have grown obsolete due to all of the improvements we’ve made to Emsisoft’s cleaning engine. In the end, all of this cleanup means less memory consumption and increased scan times for all Emsisoft users.

More PUP Signatures

In addition to removing everything that was outdated and obsolete, the update adds roughly 6000 new PUP signatures to the Emsisoft scanning engine. This means that Emsisoft will spot all of the PUPs you miss, bring them to your attention, and ask you whether you want to install them or not. The end result of this improvement is again less memory consumption and less wasted space.

Google Chrome and Firefox

It used to be the case that PUP developers would only go to the effort of attaching their programs to plugins made for Internet Explorer. Due to the growing popularity of Google Chrome and Firefox, this approach has changed. Today, many potentially unwanted plugins circulate on both Firefox and Chrome. As such, we’ve adapted Emsisoft to combat this trend and the new update reflects these changes.

It’s important to note that the growing popularity of Chrome and Firefox also make both browsers prime territory for actual malware, and that we’ve addressed this development in the update as well.

System Configuration Changes

Lastly, this update increases Emsisoft’s ability to detect the type of system configuration changes that usually go hand-in-hand with malware installation. Such changes are the type that ultimately prevent users from uninstalling malware once it has been installed, such as disabling the task manager or the registry editor. Our hope is that this added layer of detection will further improve Emsisoft’s already effective approach to malware prevention and defense.

Enjoy your update, for free

One of the things we pride ourselves upon here at Emsisoft is the ability to offer a consistently unobtrusive and effective antimalware platform. That being said, most users probably won’t even notice that the update has been applied. It’s free, automatic, and (we think) extremely effective.

So enjoy your upgraded Emsisoft, and have yet another Great (Malware-Free) Day!



Farewell 2013
2013-12-20 12:16

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Farewell 2013

We would like to thank you for being with us during 2013, and for trusting and choosing Emsisoft Anti-Malware as your antivirus solution and/or Emsisoft Online Armor as your personal firewall. We hope you’ve had a 100% malware free year! 


2013 has been a significant year for us, and not only because of the major release of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 8 complete with a new cleaning engine, optimized user interface and faster updates.

We’ve been quick to provide you with solutions to new threats, long before other vendors were even aware that a new outbreak was occurring. We’ve made further improvements to the website experience for our non-English speaking audiences, by implementing a language switch for our main blog. Speaking of which, are you aware that a Cryptolocker copycat has begun circulating recently?

Emsisoft Anti-Malware repeatedly achieved a perfect protection score in both AV-Comparatives “Real-World” Protection and On Demand File Detection Tests, as well as several MRG Effitas and VB100 assessments throughout 2013. In 2014 we will continue to offer you the best protection available. Keep an eye out for hot malware related topics in our blog, newsletters and on facebook to make sure you are always up to speed!

 
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