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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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You might wonder how an attack against a large healthcare provider would expose both patient records and credit cards used in the cafeteria. Stay tuned to learn how not to follow in their footsteps. The attack on Banner Health began in mid June and was discovered only a few weeks later. However, in that short […]
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While the Target, Home Depot, Anthem and Office of Personnel Management breaches, among other large breaches, get most of the headlines, according to Travelers Insurance, 62% of all breaches hit small and medium size companies. Those statistics only cover the 34,000+ known incidents per day that are reported. Many more are undetected or intentionally not […]
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