On Monday I wrote about two new Point of Sale breaches, one at HEI hotels and the other at Oracle. I said that it was only Monday and we already had two POS breaches. Well the week is almost over and I am going to bookend the week with another POS breach. Eddie Bauer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many people have webcams installed in and around their house. For a Houston mother, the security that the cameras inside her house brought her was instantly turned into a nightmare recently. Another mother, in Oregon, was looking at satellite feeds of earth with her son when they started looking for more images. They came […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia suffered a breach in June of this year. Even though they discovered the breach within two weeks of it occurring, the hackers made off with information on 200,000 current and former patients. The information taken includes names, addresses, socials, birth dates, phone numbers, diagnoses and medical histories. One of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t think that Allstate is a whole lot different than other insurance companies; maybe they are just being more open about it. Allstate has announced a new company called Arity, who’s job it is to sell your data. Insurance companies have a lot of data and creating more every day. One part of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sage Group, an international cloud based accounting, payroll, HR and CRM services company acknowledged a breach this week. The breach affects around 300 companies based in the U.K. but the value of the breach is not in who got breached, but rather the lessons to be learned from it. The company provides accounting and payroll […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So far this week (and it is only Monday), we have two POS breaches in the news. HEI Hotels and Resorts, which manages almost 60 hotels for Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and other chains announced that 20 of their locations, covering all of their brands, had suffered breaches. While they have not said how many cards […]
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