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Malware Swipes Millions of Credit Cards (2 web pages).

A security breach shows failings in security rules.

-- Tom

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Heartland says it has closed security hole.

As data breaches go, a single merchant getting hacked is bad enough. Even worse is an intrusion into the systems of big payment processors, which could potentially put customer credit card data at risk at the hundreds of thousands of merchants whose transactions are crunched there.

..."Unfortunately the bad guys are very, very good," he said. "The malware we encountered did not, and does not, get very well captured by antivirus software, so it's a challenge we're going to have to keep working as an industry to combat."
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-- Tom