One
interesting and unusual security step.
Sheplers,
the leading multi-channel western-wear retailer, today issued the
following statement:
Sheplers has determined that our payment systems suffered a security
breach in which hackers gained access to our systems and some of our
customers’ payment card information was exposed. With the
assistance of a leading computer security firm, we are continuing our
investigation into this incident, and we are cooperating with law
enforcement in their efforts to find the criminals responsible.
Although our investigation continues, at the present time, we believe
it is safe to use payment cards at Sheplers.
Our information to date indicates that the breach potentially impacts
customers who used payment cards at Sheplers’ retail locations
between June 11, 2014, and September 4, 2014. At this time, we do
not believe that this incident affected our online webstore.
… When we first
received an informal tip from a financial institution
suggesting the possibility of a breach, we hired a leading computer
security firm to conduct a thorough investigation and suspended
all electronic processing of payment cards for sales at
our retail store locations until we could determine whether customer
information was at risk.
Interesting
collection of comments. I would say: remain humble, it will happen
to you.
Feedback
Friday: 56 Million Payment Cards Compromised in Home Depot Breach -
Industry Reactions
…
What types of security solutions should have been used by Home
Depot? What are best practices for avoiding such incidents? What
steps should the retail industry take? These are just some of the
questions answered by members of the security industry.
And
the Feedback Begins...
For
my Computer Security students. How to defeat simple passwords. My
Ethical Hackers must create a tool like this.
Is
your security up to this challenge?
Simon
Hartley reports:
Police are investigating after attempts were allegedly made to hack a
nationwide patient database.
In an email obtained by the Otago Daily Times, Southern
Primary Health Organisation clinical adviser Keith Abbott, of
Dunedin, warned GPs and health organisations about the ”significant
hacking attempt” on September 9.
He said the hacker tried to gain access to DrInfo,
which is used by health boards, including the Southern District
Health Board, medical centres and GPs around the country.
”Starting at 11am on September 9, in one case continuously lasting
for 12 hours, a single IP [internet protocol] address has made over
20 million attempts to guess the passwords of practices, PHOs and
DHBs in New Zealand,” Dr Abbott said.
Read
more on Otago
Daily Times.
For
my Computer Security students. Physical security isn't perfect.
(Imagine what someone who was not mentally ill might be able to do.)
Secret
Service investigates after man jumps White House fence, reaches doors
A
man jumped over the White House fence and made it to the front doors
of the executive mansion before being apprehended on Friday, sparking
an evacuation within the complex shortly after President Barack Obama
departed for the weekend.
Omar
J. Gonzales, a 42-year-old white male from Texas, made it onto the
grounds at 7:20 EDT, a U.S. Secret Service spokesman said. Gonzales
ignored commands to stop and was ultimately caught, unarmed, just
inside the North Portico doors of the White House, one of the
building's main entrances.
My
weekly giggle...
…
Rolling Jubilee,
a group that grew out of the Occupy
Movement, announced
this week that it has purchased “for about three cents on the
dollar, of nearly four million dollars’ worth of private debt from
Everest College,
which is part of the for-profit Corinthian
Colleges system.
The debts had been incurred by more than two thousand students.”
The group then notified students that some of their debt had been
canceled. [For
three cents on the dollar, there may be a viable business opportunity
here. Or does that only work with failing schools? Bob]
…
Coursera
is pursuing MOOCs-on-demand.
“We find the number of people
who enroll for a class and immediately start taking it are twice as
likely to complete it as those who enroll a month or two before it
begins,” Koller explained.
…
A 95-page report
from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) has evaluated LAUSD’s
“Common Core Technology Project.” Only 1 teacher out of 245
classrooms reported
using the Pearson
curriculum. (It’s costing the district about $200 per device for a
three-year licensing deal.) 80% of high schools reported they “rarely
used the tablets.” The report found that the district was so busy
dealing with the distribution of the iPads, it
never really addressed using them in the classroom.
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