P.F. Chang’s restaurant chain suffered a cyber breach in which about 60,000 credit cards were stolen. The breach only affected 33 of the company’s approximately 400 restaurants, so it could have been much worse, even though it lasted 8 months. Still, the restaurant spent about $1.7 million recovering from the breach. If the breach hit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data — including BBM messages — to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals For years we always thought Blackberry was the security standard that everyone else was measured by. In April we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]“This is not time for firms to keep calm and carry on. The proper response is to freak out.” – Prof. Dan Solove, GWU Law School While I am not sure that freaking out is, in fact, the only proper response, I think that what Prof. Solove is saying is that ignoring the situation is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently some British Members of Parliament (MPs) are not terribly happy today. It came to light by way of some more leaked documents from Edward Snowden that GCHQ – the British equivalent of the CIA – has been reading the emails of Members of Parliament for years. Given that Parliament is in the middle of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Deadspin reported that thousands of NFL players’ paper and electronic medical records dating back to 2004 were stolen from a trainer’s car when the car was broken in to and a laptop taken. The laptop was unencrypted. The Redskins admitted that a password protected, unencrypted laptop was stolen from a trainer’s locked car in Indianapolis […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A federal judge in Georgia has ruled that the class action lawsuit filed by banks against Home Depot over Home Depot’s massive 2014 breach may proceed. The judge ruled that the banks’ allegations of negligence on Home Depot’s part appear to have merit. That is probably not a great start for Team Home Depot. The […]
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