The number of computers in North America infected by the Backoff malware, which is blamed for a string of payment card breaches, has risen sharply, according to research from network security company ...
There's a classic approach behind many of the retail cyberattacks that make the news: Backoff malware, which sniffs the traffic that flows on a network to identify and steal credit card data passed ...
Backoff malware is giving retailers a new cyber threat to worry about. With instances of this new attack vector appearing as far back as late 2013, security researchers digging into Backoff’s reach ...
Backoff algorithms have been introduced to improve network performance by reducing collisions over networks, especially in large ones. The binary exponential back off used in the standard IEEE 802.11 ...
The Department of Homeland Security sounded an alarm last week about this young strain of malicious software. The agency directed its warning mainly at retailers, but banks are also vulnerable to ...
The number of computers in North America infected by the Backoff malware, which is blamed for a string of payment card breaches, has risen sharply, according to research from network security company ...
Close to 400 Dairy Queen locations were breached this summer and the company has pinned the blame on hackers using the Backoff point-of-sale malware. Backoff apparently has a sweet tooth.
A payment card industry security consortium warned retailers on Wednesday of the urgency to secure their systems against “Backoff,” a malicious software program that steals card numbers. Backoff ...