Point of Sale Machines are Potential Cause of Another Data Breach
Neiman Marcus is the latest victim of a data breach caused by credit card hackers. Brian Krebs reported last week that the upscale department store had its database of customer information hacked last month. This comes in the wake of Targets historic breach of over 40 million credit card numbers and an additional 70 […]
Recent data breaches once again sparks credit card technology debate
[vc_row type=”grid” video_bg=”” css=”.vc_custom_1644068749869{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ dp_animation=””][vc_column_text dp_animation=””]Recent data breaches in the US (mainly Target and Neiman Marcus) have once again sparked the age old debate of magnetic strip cards vs. EMV (Europay/Mastercard/Visa) chip cards. Whenever a store completes a transaction the data from that transaction is stored on the organization’s servers. […]
New U.S. data breach laws met by problems from the past
[vc_row type=”grid” video_bg=”” css=”.vc_custom_1644068549749{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ dp_animation=””][vc_column_text dp_animation=””]The major data breaches from retailers Target, Neiman Marcus, Michaels and TJX have rekindled the debate on not only updating credit cards and payment systems, but also legislation on data breach reporting. The goal is to hold retailers to the same standards of reporting that […]
Target analysts warned of security weaknesses well before data breach
[vc_row type=”grid” video_bg=”” css=”.vc_custom_1644068101446{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ dp_animation=””][vc_column_text dp_animation=””]It was reported recently that security analysts at Target Corp raised concerns that their payment card system had vulnerabilities, this was at least 2 months before their massive data breach. Initial tests and reviews of the new system had been done, but those alone were […]
Data breaches in Healthcare remain a big concern in 2014
[vc_row type=”grid” video_bg=”” css=”.vc_custom_1644068011317{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ dp_animation=””][vc_column_text dp_animation=””]Last month we discussed the high expectations that would be put on healthcare IT this year. Only 2 months into the year and we are already starting to see signs of this, coming after the release of the 2013 HIMSS Security Survey. Our government has […]
Indiana University reports potential data breach
[vc_row type=”grid” video_bg=”” css=”.vc_custom_1644067917220{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ dp_animation=””][vc_column_text dp_animation=””]Indiana University notified Indiana’s attorney general’s office this week of the exposure of approximately 146,000 records. These records included PII such as name, address, and Social Security numbers of students across 7 campuses, who attended from 2011-2014. However, this instance is different from what we […]
Data recovered off hard drive involved in Space Shuttle crash
[vc_row type=”grid” video_bg=”” css=”.vc_custom_1644067824706{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″ dp_animation=””][vc_column_text dp_animation=””]Computer World released an interesting article the other day about a hard drive from the space ship Columbia. The same spaceship Columbia which disintegrated coming back into our atmosphere back in 2003. Among the wreckage and debris was a hard drive, which at first glance […]