This month a number of smaller banks attempted to derail the agreement between Target and Visa because, they said, that the way Visa allocated the money, they got almost nothing (see post). Magically, after the judge said that he did not like the agreement but that he could not do anything about it, Visa agreed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The IAPP published 10 part series on vendor management. A vendor was the cause of both the Target and Home Depot breaches and as I wrote yesterday, a vendor cost USIS at least $2.5 billion in lost business. How good is your vendor management program? Here are a few tips from the series: You may […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]USIS, a firm that used to do background checks for the U.S. Government was hacked in 2013. They did not provide many details of what happened, but the government cancelled $2.5 Billion in contracts and they laid off 2,500 employees. It also pushed the parent company dangerously close to default on $2 Billion in loans […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Brian Krebs reported that the company mSpy was hacked. mSpy builds a software product that runs in the cloud and allows parents to spy on their kids and adults to spy on their (cheating) significant others. That data is stored in the cloud, and now, hundreds of gigs of their customer’s photos, appointments, corporate emails […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are not a lot of details, but Network World is reporting that the Penn State College Of Engineering took their Internet connection “off the hook”. Last November Penn State got a visit from the FBI – that visit that everyone hopes that they will never get. Penn State was the victim of two cyber […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN is reporting that hackers have found yet another opportunity. Hacking your Starbucks app, they add new cards to the account, then use your autofill bank account to load them. Starbucks has acknowledged that this is happening, but says that they were not hacked. Customer’s bank accounts are getting drained, however. Apparently, the way it […]
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