I find it interesting that there was no mention of
how the malware got into all those terminals. Do we have hackers on
a road trip? More likely, they are loading the malware as an update.
And that is really disturbing from a security viewpoint.
54 Starwood
Hotels Ransacked By Credit Card Gobbling Malware
Dozens of Starwood hotels around the country were
hit with malware
that enabled cyber thieves to access credit and debit card
information from point of sale terminals. The malware affected a
variety of locations on Starwood properties, including restaurants,
gift shops, and other places where customers might have swiped a
payment card.
A total of 54
Starwood hotels (PDF) fell prey to the malware, including places
like the Walt Disney World Dolphin - A Sheraton Hotel in Orlando,
Florida, and over a dozen Westin hotels spanning the continental U.S.
and Hawaii.
If you don't have everything you need to steal
money, try extorting it from your victims.
The
opportunistic and empty threat that is data breach victim extortion
… Let me explain how these blackmail attempts
work, what the extortionists are looking for and how they’re
becoming an increasingly common thing in the wake of a major data
breach. Oh – and we’ll see if anyone is actually paying the
bastards as well.
It is possible, if you know who is doing it.
How to
Opt-Out of Interest-Based Advertising and Stop the Ads from Following
You
… . To give you an example, if you search for
‘hotels in singapore’ on a travel website, you’ll see that
almost every website you visit later will have ads arounds Singapore
hotels. Whether you are reading news on CNN, checking out cooking
videos on YouTube or reading your Facebook newsfeed, the ads are
likely to be around the same them – Singapore hotels.
In other words, the ads follow you on the Internet
even after you have switched to a different website. Online
advertisers, with the help of browser cookies, are able to track you
across the web and serve relevant advertising.
If you would not like web companies to use your
past online behavior to target ads on your computer, you do have an
option to easily opt-out. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon
and other web advertising networks offer simple ways to help you
opt-out of targeted advertising.
Toss the baby with the bathwater? The whole
purpose is to make the cards like cash. If the cards become a
hassle, terrorists will go back to cash.
… The French government says it wants to
tighten the rules on the use of prepaid bank cards as part of a
crackdown on extremist financing.
Finance Minister Michel Sapin says the aim is to
restrict the ability of extremists to use such cards for anonymous
money transfers.
He says Europe-wide rules are needed to ensure the
user's identity is checked when they apply for and use the cards.
Sapin said Monday that those who carried out the
Nov. 13 attacks in Paris used prepaid cards. He didn't elaborate.
Interesting.
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Amusing and I expect tomorrow's will be for the
Democrats.
The Perfect
Republican Stump Speech
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