Fidelity National suffered the ultimate insider theft when an IT staffer sold about 2.3 million customer records to a marketing firm. But it’s the low-tech way this techie did it that makes it interesting.
When Fidelity National Information Services this week announced that about 2.3 million customer records had been illegally sold to a group of […]
Often transmitting unencrypted confidential customer data over weakly-protected connections, retailers risk privacy and create backdoors for cyber thieves. And yet, no one’s giving the merchants much of a choice.
When retailers make changes to any system that might impact credit-card processing—be it point-of-sale upgrades, OS patches, database changes, connection improvements, etc.—it needs to be tested.
For the […]
The Blink Of An Eye
Most users are well aware that they should back up their data on a regular basis. Some are fortunate in that they are aware simply from information they have read, or anecdotal stories told 3rd-hand. Many, however, have suffered the consequences of failing to back up data first hand, perhaps losing […]
Somebody is Watching You
How would you feel if there were someone following your every move and keeping a written record of everywhere you go? Would it concern you that someone knew you were at the book store this morning for 2 hours and 13 minutes and that you bought 2 books and a large coffee? […]
Over the last couple of days there have been rumors whether the massive breach at TJX might have been an “inside-job”. This is probably fueled by the fact that the attacker apparently had access to the crypto keys within TJX’s data center. Whether it was an inside-job or not, doesn’t really matter at this point.
Protegrity […]
Last week 37Signals launched another product as part of their online productivity suite. It’s called Highrise and it is a CRM that complements their well known project management application Basecamp. They have a whole portfolio of Ruby on Rails based apps. Take a look at their Ta-da Lists if you have problems keeping up with […]
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