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Home Depot confirms there was indeed a breach. Presence of BlackPOS hints that the perpetrators could be the same ones who breached Target.

Home Depot admitted today that hackers really did breach the company's payment systems in US and Canadian stores and may have been breaking in since April, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The apparent credit and debit card breach uncovered last week at Home Depot was aided in part by a new variant of the malicious software program that stole card account data from cash registers at Target last December, according to sources close to the investigation.

Trend Micro report finds that the economic and technical barriers to becoming a cybercriminal are much lower today than in the past

The late August news from JPMorgan Chase rocked the world of info security when the huge money center bank reported it had been breached, apparently by hackers who were said to be affiliated with a nation state.

After analyzing trends in the Chinese underground, Trend Micro found that activity in the marketplace doubled between 2012 and 2013.

Tweets with fake links to #JLaw photos revive oldest trick in Web malware book.

The underground market for cybercrime products and services in China is booming, with both the number of participants and IM messages sent between those participants doubling last year, according to new research from Trend Micro.

Credit card data stolen from retailers such as Target,Sally Beauty Supply, P.F. Chang's, and now perhaps Home Depot, are flooding into underground hacker forums where customers' card numbers, names and addresses can be sold for as little as $1 each.

The late August news of a data breach at JPMorgan Chaserocked the world of fintech info security: The huge money center bank was apparently hit by hackers said to be affiliated with a nation state.