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Britain's Dixons Carphone Discovers Data Breach Affecting 5.9 Million Payment Cards (betanews.com) 32

Posted by BeauHD from the here-we-go-again dept.
Mark Wilson shares a report from BetaNews: Another week, another cyberattack. This time around, it's the Dixons Carphone group which says it has fallen victim to not one but two major breaches. The bank card details of 5.9 million customers have been accessed by hackers in the first breach. In the second, the personal records of 1.2 million people have been exposed. Dixons Carphone says that it is investigating an attack on its card processing system at Currys PC World and Dixons Travel in which there was an attempt to compromise 5.9 million cards. The company stressed that the vast majority -- 5.8 million -- of these cards were protected by chip and PIN, and that the data accessed did not include PINS, CVVs or any other authentication data that could be used to make payments or identify the card owners. The report goes on to mention that 105,000 non-EU issued payment cards, which were not chip and PIN protected, were also affected. The company says it will be contacting those customers affected by the breaches.

Comment Re:You forgot one (Score 1) 86

by rephlex (#51225037) Attached to: 64 Hacker Friendly Single Board Computers

http://www.up-board.org/

UP board is AMAZING specs.

Agreed. This looks like the perfect upgrade from the Raspberry Pi, assuming they get it right. A quad-core 64-bit CPU with USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet are exactly what I'm looking for. And I'm sure the Intel Atom's USB controller won't be broken, unlike the one contained in all the Broadcom SoCs used in the various Raspberry Pis. Software workarounds never solved all of its problems.

Submission + - Kodak Will Launch Kodak Android Smartphone And Tablets at CES (brightverge.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: brightverge.com: After Kodak almost broke in 2012 but now Kodak will launch Kodak android smartphone and tablets at CES, because the company was looking for ways to stay afloat. According to the high officials from Kodak that it is partnering with the Bullitt Group to reveal a new range of mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, at a CES event in January-2015.

Submission + - Are Ouya circling the drain? (reddit.com)

Submitted by rephlex
rephlex writes: For over a week now the Ouya console has been unavailable for online purchase from Amazon, Target, GameStop and Ouya's own store. Target appear to have only a very limited number of Ouyas remaining in stock at some of their stores. Ouya's CEO Julie Uhrman has not yet publicly commented on this ongoing lack of availability. Some have speculated this is an indication that the arrival of the next-generation Ouya is imminent, although with the apparently lacklustre sales to date of both their hardware and software and the resulting questionable financial state of Ouya this appears unlikely.

Comment Re:is the USB 'bug' fixed, at this point? (Score 1) 77

No, they haven't completely resolved the multiple bugs with USB on the Raspberry Pi and I don't expect they ever will. Some of them seem to be completely unsolvable in software..

Incidentally, they've just started a beta test of the latest round of USB fixes: http://www.raspberrypi.org/php...

Comment Re:Raspberry PI USB Power Issues (Score 1) 246

by rephlex (#45451297) Attached to: Raspberry Pi Hits the 2 Million Mark

Nope, doesn't help. Hot-plugging a USB device on a Raspberry Pi without USB polyfuses (which are only present on the first version of the Pi) can cause the Pi to reset or crash. I tried putting this infomation on the Raspberry Pi page on Wikipedia but it was reverted, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raspberry_Pi&diff=559064643&oldid=559049166

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