06 Mar 2014 // Dan Yelin
Heads are rolling in a management reshuffle at Target with Beth Jacobs, the company’s Chief Information Officer, resigning this morning. Her departure comes in the wake of a disastrous data breach that exposed personal account and credit card information for over 40 million customers. Jacobs, who served as CIO since 2008, was responsible for overseeing Target’s information security infrastructure.
06 Mar 2014 // Dan Yelin
Ever hit the ‘reset password’ button when you’ve forgotten a password? Apparently nobody told New Delhi’s police department about this feature, who have been locked out of their corruption complaint logging and tracking system for eight years. Two Delhi police officers were put in charge of managing and operating this system, which funnels complaints from India’s Central Vigilance Commission, its anti-corruption agency, for further investigation and processing by local authorities. When called upon to explain why the system had been idle for years, they said that they forgot how to access and operate the system. Since this bright duo first lost access in 2006 more than 650 complaints have piled up in their system, leaving a formidable backlog that will most certainly occupy large amounts of their time for the foreseeable future.
04 Mar 2014 // Dan Yelin
If you use Twitter, you’ve probably got a message in your inbox telling you to change your password. No need to freak out–you’re not alone.
27 Feb 2014 // Dan Yelin
A new trove of 360 million stolen login credentials has recently surfaced in a new development that underscores just how insecure most online transactions really are. This information is part of a larger haul of 1.25 billion email addresses that came to light on numerous underground crime forums in recent weeks. Hold Security, a cybersecurity firm, is reporting that these breaches were identified in the first three weeks of February–a mind boggling data point.
25 Feb 2014 // Dan Yelin
Think you have a good password? Microsoft has developed a new tool that can help you figure out exactly how clever that passphrase is.
