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Another comes via the US-CERT July 31 advisory: "At the time this advisory is released, the variants of the 'Backoff' malware family are largely undetected by anti-virus vendors.

To help block these types attacks, US-CERT has published "indicators of compromise" that organizations can also monitor, including MD5 hashes of Backoff malware that's been recovered in previous attacks. Such hashes, however, wouldn't match any versions of existing malware that attackers repack, which means they alter the file slightly to result in a different hash, while keeping functionality intact.

Likewise, brand-new versions of the malware wouldn't match existing MD5 hashes. One takeaway from the UPS hack attack is that the government's Backoff warning worked. Honan, meanwhile, also lauds UPS for releasing a well-written data breach notification.

In other data breach news, UPS announced its breach the same day that Target reported a second-quarter decline in net earnings of more than 60 percent, the third consecutive quarterly decline in profits.

The slump comes after the massive data breach of Target's POS systems was discovered in December Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in , where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications.

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The easiest way to cut them is with an Exacto knife. Use short strokes to prevent slipping and cutting something else important. Now it's time to solder the wires to the back of the PCB. Using the pin assignments from step 4, solder the colored wires to the correct USB solder pad. Then solder the braid to a ground connection. The outside of the USB plug will be grounded - use one of those pads. I used some heat shrink around the excess ground braid, just to be safe.

Use as small piece of electrical black tape to insulate the wires from the rest of the PCB. Now put it all back together. Connect all the plugs, plug in the hard drive, and then screw the case back on.

All that's left is to plug it into your computer and test it out. It should immediately detect the new hardware and tell you so. Now reward yourself with some Vanessa Hudgens pictures.

Be sure to save them on your new secret hidden drive to keep them away from those pesky burglars! Now all you have to do is grab that cable and take it with you, knowing your secret image stash will be perfectly safe from prying eyes. Here's the video again:. Private customer information that may have been leaked includes names, postal addresses, email addresses, and credit and debit card data.

I apologize for any anxiety this may have caused our customers. Our customers can be assured that we have identified and fully contained the incident. The company became aware of the breach after the US government notified the chain it had discovered a "broad-based malware intrusion" in its system.

This firm then located the malware in the 51 stores' systems.