18 Feb 2014 // Andrew Stroup
While there may be no such thing as bad publicity, this certainly can’t be helpful. This employee chose to quit in one of the funnier ways imaginable, made possible in large part because she had access to the company passwords. Not to be outdone, her boss made his own response. [Click here][2] to view the workplace drama as it unfolds.
18 Feb 2014 // Andrew Stroup
Target’s recent data breach has left banks seeing red in more ways than one. Banking industry organizations are now estimating that their costs associated with this data theft will exceed a whopping $200 million. As a precautionary measure to prevent fraud, banks are on the hook for replacing nearly 40 million debit and credit cards whose information was compromised in one of the most damaging hacker attacks in recent memory. Perhaps most infuriating for these banks is that Target got away pretty much scott free, only having to cough up two years of credit monitoring for those who want it, and pledging $5 million towards a cybersecurity coalition.
16 Feb 2014 // Andrew Stroup
Kickstarter has reported that on Wednesday night their servers were compromised by hackers (notified by law enforcement officials), gaining access to private customer information. Although Kickstarter reports no credit card information was accessed by the hackers, personal information including [email][2], mailing address, phone numbers and encrypted passwords were taken. The security vulnerability has now been resolved, but the impact to customers is still present.
13 Feb 2014 // Andrew Stroup
In an exclusive article by NBC News, more details have been released about how Edward Snowden accessed, removed, and disseminated classified NSA documentation to the public.
13 Feb 2014 // Andrew Stroup
Fruit-based hacks extended their reach this week with scores of SnapChat users receiving pictures of smoothies that link to shady websites. This hack comes in the wake of last year’s Instagram infiltration that left users seeing apples and bananas (along with other types of fruit as well).
