After three years of investigations, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington announced on Wednesday that they have indicted three men for allegedly committing crimes where technological and conventional methods were utilized. The trio is alleged to have use a technique called ‘wardriving’, using a vehicle to detect a business’ wireless network and gain […]
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, […]
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 […]