Too many attacks to write about individually, so I am just going to write a short blurb on each with a link. Oh, My! British Airways – hackers accessed “tens of thousands” of frequent flyer accounts forcing BA to lock down the system, denying users access to the system and requesting that they change their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Two more insurance companies, Premera Blue Cross and Lifewise, joined the club that no one wants to be a member of and announced that they were both breached (see here and here). Premera said that 11 million records were hacked and Lifewise lost 250,000. Both said the breaches started in May of last year […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dark Reading reported on Verizon’s PCI compliance assessment and I think the numbers are interesting, but not terribly unexpected (see article). The actual report, all 84 pages, is available here. Most of the time (maybe always), when a business has an assessment done by a third party assessor, that company will do an interim assessment […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group admitted that their credit card system at an unknown number of their hotels was hacked and credit cards compromised AFTER they were outed by Krebs On Security. The upscale hotel chain, where rooms at the New York property start at $850 a night, would be a great target for hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Register is reporting that Anthem refused to allow U.S. government auditors to audit their systems as required as part of a contract that Anthem has with the U.S. government. This news is coming out after Anthem was hacked of some 88 million customer records. The Office Of Personnel Management Inspector General audits insurers who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I suspected when Apple Pay was released, the hackers did not just give up and say “this is too hard” and all get jobs at Burger King. No, instead they said, what vulnerabilities does Apple Pay have? The first one (at least that we know of) is something called yellow path. The hackers have […]
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