A recent survey of senior IT security professionals revealed that an astonishing 74% were not sure that their company’s network had been breach free from a cyber attack sponsored by a foreign country. Article Excerpt: Businesses are losing the battle against...
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) typically perceive their cyber liability as less than that of huge publicly traded corporations. After all, there is a continual stream of news accounts these days about hackers breaking into a big company’s network, stealing...
Cyber criminals are in hot pursuit of consumers’ payment card information because the payoff is a potential gold mine. Any retailer – large or small – that takes credit and debit cards needs to prepare for the threat of a hacking attack. Even if the card data is...
Schnucks, a family-owned grocery chain located in the Midwest, was the victim of a cyber attack between December 2012 and March 2013. In a prior post on our website, we mentioned that up to 2.4 million credit cards were potentially compromised. As the fallout...
Schnucks, a Midwestern grocery store chain, has confirmed that “malicious computer code” was used to hack into its payment card processing system to steal data from customers’ debit and credit cards. Article Excerpt: Schnucks, a St. Louis-based grocery store chain...
Large banks have been under cyber attack lately, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. seems to be the latest victim. In this particular incident, the attackers used a technique know as denial-of-service (DoS), which is designed to overwhelm a server or group of servers with...
