Wendy's Finds More PoS Systems Hit by Malware
Wendy’s launched an investigation in late January after
fraud patterns were discovered on cards used at some restaurants. The presence of malware was confirmed in
February and, in mid-May, the company said hackers had compromised PoS systems at less than 300 of its 5,500
franchised restaurants in North America.
The investigation
conducted up until May revealed that unrelated cybersecurity issues had been
identified at roughly 50 other franchise restaurants. As the investigation continued, experts
discovered another variant of the malware that was similar to the threat
discovered initially, but which had a different execution method.
According to the
company, a remote access tool (RAT) had been found on PoS systems that were
initially believed to be clean. As a
result, Wendy’s now says the number of affected restaurants is “considerably
higher” than 300, although it has not disclosed an exact number.
… “Many
franchisees and operators throughout the retail and restaurant industries contract
with third-party service providers to maintain and support their POS systems. The Company believes this series of
cybersecurity attacks resulted from certain service providers' remote access
credentials being compromised, allowing access to the POS system in certain
franchise restaurants serviced by those providers,” Wendy’s said in a statement.
Wendy’s pointed out that the data breach does not appear
to impact any of the restaurants it operates.
How bad must you be for politicians to take notice? Is this posturing? Will they take action if there is no
improvement? Stay tuned until after the
election (and campaign contribution) season.
New York state’s top cop says this cable company misleads
consumers about its Internet speeds
The ink is barely dry on Charter's massive
acquisition of Time Warner Cable — a deal that just formed the
nation's second-largest cable company — but New York's attorney general is
wasting no time pressing the firm on customer complaints about their Internet
service.
Thousands of Time Warner Cable's customers have written in
to the attorney general's office saying they aren't getting the download speeds
they paid for as part of an ongoing investigation by New York Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman into Internet providers' advertised speeds, according to a
spokesman. And on Wednesday,
Schneiderman sent a letter to Charter calling
for the cable company to "clean up Time Warner Cable's act"
in the wake of the acquisition.
I’ve not seen an HBR video before. Some thoughts for my students?
Can You Entrust That Decision to a Robot?
For more, read "When
to Trust Robots with Decisions, and When Not To."
Could be useful.
Sunlight Foundation is using IFTTT to make the government
more open
by Sabrina I. Pacifici on Jun 9, 2016
“Want to know when the president signs a bill into
law? When congress votes on a bill? When a new legislator is representing you? Since 2014, The Sunlight Foundation has been
connecting its massive trove of government data to IFTTT, the popular web
service that connects things on the internet to other things… For those
unfamiliar with IFTTT, it works like this: Users create recipes that consist of
a trigger (the “IF” portion of IFTTT), such as “If I get a Facebook
notification,” and a result, such as “send me an email.” The idea is to connect up the myriad services
and information available on the internet to make them work in concert with one
another. The function of the service is
spelled out in its name, which doubles as an initialism: IF This, Then That. The Sunlight Foundation has put IFTTT to work by bridging
its Congress
API to various online services. The
foundation automatically pulls in lots of data from the government — the
locations and zip codes of congress members, for example, and the crush of
information that accompanies the legislature’s routines: floor votes, hearings,
bills, amendments and nominations. With
IFTTT, The Sunlight Foundation allows people to automatically get an email when
the president signs a bill into law, or save that law to a read-later app like
Pocket or Instapaper…”
How can I use this?
I’ll ask my gaming students.
Microsoft launches a free trial of Minecraft: Education
Edition for teachers to test over the summer
Following up on its promises from January,
Microsoft today released a free trial of Minecraft Education Edition –
the version of Minecraft meant for use in the classroom – to educators
worldwide. This “early access” version
of the program includes new features and updated classroom content and
curriculum, the company also says.
For those unfamiliar with the Education Edition, the idea
is to bring the world of Minecraft to the classroom to be used as a learning
tool where students can develop skills in areas like digital citizenship,
empathy, literacy, and more. They can use the
software as part of a coding camp, study science, learn about city planning,
or they can study history by re-creating historic landscapes and events in the
program, for example.
In case I ever teach Math again.
Recognize Handwritten Equations with MyScript MathPad
MyScript Mathpad is a handwriting recognition
app specialized for mathematics expressions. MyScript Mathpad automatically converts
handwritten mathematical expressions and equations to their digital equivalent.
It can recognize more than 200 symbols
and operators.
MyScript MathPad is compatible with iPad, iPhone, and iPod
Touch running in iOS 6.0 or later.
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