The scenario usually is something as simple as – cyber-thieves plant a software program onto a point-of-sale terminal at your local retail establishment, which then allows the criminal to retain the credit card information from the unsuspecting patron. While money is being drained from the customer’s bank account to pay for items like clothes and gas, […]
Tuesday, July 19, 2011, will become a red-letter date in the world of cyber-security. While the British government was busy ‘undressing’ media mogul Rupert Murdoch for his company’s role in the hacking scandal that has rocked the U.K., the U.S. government on Tuesday launched a nationwide dragnet against “hacktivists” who are operating within the jurisdiction of the United States. […]
The New York Times reported today that the recovery expenses for Sony, Corp., related to its hacking incident this past April will likely exceed $173 million U.S. dollars. This announcement coincides with the Company’s decision to promote Mr. Andrew House to the position of president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment. This position was once held […]
On Wednesday night, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), Security Community, hosted an event at the Attachmate offices in downtown Seattle, WA, on one startup companies experience with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud outage of April 21, 2011. Jeff Malek, co-founder of the Seattle-based virtual economy platform BigDoor Media, Inc., did a post-mortem presentation […]
This week, online hacker group LulzSec posted, on an open Internet forum, that they have declared “open season” on virtually (no pun intended) all government and corporate websites around the world. The group, along with its loosely affiliated partner Anonymous, are encouraging hacktavists to post any acquired mission-critical information of targeted organizations to its Internet websites for public […]
As more and more companies are falling victim to cyber-attacks, the concept of an incident, or breach, response plan has become very pertinent to corporate leaders. When Epsilon Data Management was hacked into last March, CEO Bryan Kennedy decided to notify all of its important customers within 48 hours of the breach, even though he […]
In my prior blog post, I opined that the Citi Bank data breach, which left over 200,000 credit card holders personal information exposed, was more about the overall culture of compliance within CitiBank than the technology employed internally by the company. As it turns out, a team of security experts has determined that CitiBank officials simply left […]
The other day it was announced that Citi Bank was once again victim to data theft when it was reported that over 200,000 credit card holders may have had their personally identifiable information exposed in an unauthorized manner to hackers. This latest breach is just another recurring role in the endless saga of “bank gets […]
This past weekend it was reported that the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, and Lockheed-Martin had their networks attacked by cyber-criminals. The Wall Street Journal highlighted today two different stories about how government and private organizations are responding to the daily deluge of cyber-attacks within their respective sectors. The first story deals with how the […]
It was confirmed Saturday evening that aerospace giant Lockheed-Martin was hit by a “minimal” cyber-attack. According to Company and Pentagon officials, the cyber-attack was quickly detected, and no personnel, customer, or program data was compromised. As it is too early to tell the extent of the breach, one conclusion can be that due to the […]