Suggestive, and not in a good way. If
this was only detected by consumers reporting fruad, has it been
going long enough to hit their monthly statements? If all cards used
“before Friday” is accurate, it sounds like someone accessed the
archived card information, something they are not supposed to keep.
I wonder why reporters never ask questions anymore...
Chuck Williams reports that a
number of companies have been notified by card
processors of what may be a major breach. In Callaway Gardens’
case, it seems to involve malware, but the
other companies affected are not named nor whether the same malware
was involved in their compromises:
Consumers who have
used credit or debit cards at Callaway Gardens are being urged to
check their accounts for possible fraudulent charges after the
Harris County resort was notified this week of a breach of its
system.
The problems could
impact anyone who used a card at the resort before
Friday, according to a news release from Callaway Gardens.
The release did not say when the problem started.
A credit card
processing company identified and notified multiple companies,
including Callaway Gardens, that sophisticated fraudulent credit card
activity had been detected, according to the news release. The
companies were identified by common points of
counterfeit purchases reported by consumers, according to
the release.
Read more on Ledger-Enquirer.
I don’t see any notice or link on the resort’s home page, but a
Google search led me to this notice
on their site.
Anyone know who the other companies
are? If anyone has any additional details, please email me or
contact me via Twitter, @pogowasright.
What strategy are they following?
Consolidating all the lawsuits would be cheaper than fighting them
individually, right? Is that all this is?
Becky Yerak of the Chicago Tribune
reports:
The grocer laid
out the math in its filing: It notes that, based on the plaintiff’s
allegations, the class could be as large as 500,000. If each one
spent at least two hours of “time and effort” dealing with the
breach – even if they were minimum-wage workers being paid $7.25 an
hour – the potential damage could be $7.25 million, says Schnuck,
which also has stores in Champaign, Urbana, Peoria, Springfield,
Normal, DeKalb and Roscoe.
Furthermore,
Schnucks points out, the Illinois Supreme Court has in the past
approved a ratio of punitive to compensatory damages of about 11 to
1.
When has any databreach resulted in an
hourly rate for damages to consumers? And when has there been any
award, period, where there has been no demonstration of actual harm?
I realize that Schnucks would be eager to consolidate cases and
remove them to federal court, but can the court look at this and say,
“No court has ever awarded anything like this for a data breach, so
this is unrealistic?”
[From the Article:
Schnuck Markets Inc., which has more
than 30 stores in the Rockford area and in downstate Illinois,
disclosed last month that between December 2012 and March 29, 2013,
about 2 million credit and debit cards used at most of its stores
might have been compromised by what they believe is a criminal
hacking.
Interesting question. Were the Apps
actually hacked or is the message claiming the Apps were hacked a
fake?
Joe Svetlik reports:
Sky’s Android
apps have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. In the early
hours of this morning, the broadcaster advised Android users via the
Sky
Help Team Twitter feed to uninstall the offending apps and wait
until it says it’s safe.
Those apps are Sky
Go, Sky+, Sky WiFi, Sky News, Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports
News. At time of writing, they’ve all been yanked from Google
Play.
Read more on CNET
UK, but also read Graham
Cluley’s blog post about this.
[From the Cnet article:
Of course there's always the chance
that the Sky Help Team Twitter feed has itself been hacked. As
Graham
Cluley points out, its alerts were sent via Twitter's Web user
interface, instead of the usual Lithium Social Web. Some dodgy
grammar could also point to a non-native English speaker, or that
could be down to the fact they were sent out in the early hours by
someone who was tired.
This is scary! I do not recall seeing
anything like this before. Has Google installed a “Right to be
forgotten” algorithm and kept it secret? Who gets to be forgotten
(Democrats) and who does not (Republicans) could have significant
impact down the road.
"Speaking
at the Hay Festival in the U.K. this weekend, Google's Eric Schmidt
spoke about the permanence of your online presence, and how
that will affect kids growing up in an online world. 'We have
never had a generation with a full photographic, digital record of
what they did. We
have a point at which we [Google] forget information we know about
you because it is the right thing to do.'
He makes the point that a lot of respectable, upstanding adults today
had dubious incidents as kids and teenagers. They were able to grow
up and move past those events, and society eventually forgot — but
today, every notable misdeed is just a Google search away. CNET's
coverage points out that 'mistakes'
can often be events that put somebody's life on track. 'A word
or an act can seem like a mistake when it happens — and even
shortly afterward. In years to come, though, you might look back on
it and see that, though it created friction and even hurt at the
time, it served a higher and more character-forming purpose in the
long run.' Of course, it's also true that
some mistakes a simply indicators that somebody's a schmuck."
Schmidt also made an interesting
comment in an interview with The Telegraph while he was in the U.K.
He said, "You
have to fight for your privacy, or you will lose it."
This is quite
different from his infamous 2009 remark: "If you have
something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be
doing it in the first place."
I wish we could avoid the trap of
thinking that a separate law was required each time a new technology
or some variation of technology hits the news.
Emily Boyer reports:
As the domestic
use of drones become more prevalent, Colorado Democratic Senator Mark
Udall is introducing legislation to ensure that the privacy rights of
Americans are protected.
The
Safeguarding Privacy and Fostering Aerospace Innovation Act [.pdf]
will make it illegal for an individual or business to conduct
surveillance of another person using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
technology. There are some exceptions,
including if the person has consented or if the
person is in a public place.
Read more on KUNC
Perspective (and a really interesting
chart)
So
Far, There Are Only 3 Big Winners in the Smartphone Market
“...some of my best friends are Mac
users!”
Install Windows software on your Mac –
without the need for a virtual machine, an emulator or dual-booting.
Wineskin is a Mac app that brings Wine
to your Mac, OS X style, allowing you to create custom packages
including everything your favorite Windows programs need to run on
your Mac (well… many of your favorite Windows programs).
Once again I have been VINDICATED in my
choice of beverages. I must be so healthy by now I could live
forever. “Beer! It's not just for breakfast!”
Drop
The Fruit Punch And Grab A Beer: Sugary Drinks Could Raise Kidney
Stone Risk
… The new study
published in the Clinical Journal of American Nephtology stated
that people who drank one or more sugary drink per day were at a 23
percent higher risk for developing kidney stones. The risk was
increased to 33 percent in those who drank high-sugar beverages such
as fruit punch as opposed to those who drank cola.
My weekly amusement...
… The Chicago
Public Schools Board of Education — appointees of Mayor Rahm
Emanuel — voted
to close 49 schools in the city, the biggest single mass closure of
schools in the nation’s history. [Old School Bob]
… edX
announced 15 new members to its consortium this week, including
Tsinghua University, Peking University, The University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Kyoto University,
Seoul National University, Cornell University, Berklee College of
Music, Boston University, Davidson College, University of Washington,
Karolinska Institutet, Université catholique de Louvain, the
Technical University of Munich, and the University of Queensland.
[New school Bob]
… The “Mechanical
MOOC” — the introduction to Python programming
course offered by P2PU, MIT OpenCourseware, Codecademy, and OpenStudy
— will run again, beginning June 17. (My write-up on the first
version is here.)
… Lumen Learning,
the new company founded by open education leader David Wiley, has
offered
six “open course frameworks” via the Instructure
LMS platform. The courses, which are free and openly licensed,
include beginning algebra, intermediate algebra, developmental
reading, developmental writing, English composition, and College
Success. More courses will be released this summer.
… The for-profit Capella
University has gotten the “OK”
from its regional accrediting organization to pilot a
competency-based program that would not rely on the
credit hour but instead on “direct assessment.” [If you know the
subject, you get the degree. What a concept! Bob]
This is just one reason why I want to
teach robotics...
… While Google’s (GOOG)
autonomous driving vehicle costs $75,000, Budisteanu’s system—which
uses 3D radar and a mounted camera to detect traffic lanes and
curbs—can be had for $4,000.
Dilbert provides another...
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