This Week in ThreatWatch
A compilation of noteworthy headlines from the weird and wily world of cyber assaults.
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Thieves suck $400,000 out of southwest gas pumps
Their hacking tools included a card skimmer and a fake PIN pad overlay designed to capture PINs from customers who paid at the pump with a debit card.
Filched laptop stored 2,000 Washington area student health records
A computer containing health records for 2,000 Fairfax County public school students was taken, when someone broke into a school nurse’s car.
Assad supporters play with Reuters comics
A Thomson Reuters Twitter feed apparently met with the ire of the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government hacking group.
White House staffers’ personal Gmail hacked
Three White House staffers had their personal webmail accounts breached in what appears to be a malicious operation directed at the team responsible for the Obama administration's social media outreach.