Data Security Breach

SBI DEBIT CARD BLOCK : 99.5% Cards unaffected by data breach, All  Latest news. The finance ministry on Thursday said debit cards are “completely safe” and there is no need to panic over the feared security breach that affected over 32 lakh cards. “Only about 0.5% of the total debit card details were compromised while remaining 99.5% cards are completely safe and bank customers should not panic,”…

Security breach : SBI blocks debit cards  SBI blocks debit cards upto 6 lac : Security breach A suspected breach of data security of a private sector lender a few months back has led to pre-emptive steps being taken by other banks to thwart any potential troubles, bankers said today. The steps taken by the bankers include asking customers to change the PINs of their ATM-cum-debit cards Which has…

It Security Primer For Ceo’s

John Milton’s characterization of Satan in “Paradise Lost” has been the subject of much debate for three and one half centuries. Eat this debate has preoccupied with the issue of his true role within the work. Did Milton intend his Satan to represent traditional sour cream party incarnation of evil and villany established by Christian mythology or did he carefully craft a version of Satan with…

Breaches are everywhere we spend

Krebs tells us about another breach or two that the retailers or merchants are not obligated to tell us about for several months. AND THEY DON’T! What does this tell me, a Security Professional: a) they don’t want you to know for fear you will stop shopping with them or…b) they don’t even know they have been breached (yes, this is very possible until the bank’s have several cases and call them.

WHAT’S YOUR REPUTATION WORTH?

During this past year, we’ve been reminded (too) many times that data breaches are costly and damaging to a company’s reputation. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2014 Cost of Data Breach Study, the average total cost of a data breach—which can include credit monitoring, legal fees, remediation, and customer loss—for the companies who participated in the research report increased 15%, to $3.5…

POINT-OF-SALE CYBER ATTACKS ARE BACK WITH BACKOFF

Point-of-Sale attacks are back in the news. But they never really left us. In the wake of the Target attack, the FBI issued a bulletin in January warning about future incidents. They identified the malware type (RAM scrapers) and the infection vector (phish mails, and compromised websites or “watering holes”). And they even pointed out that some of the malware can be obtained on the black market.