Doing
less than what was possible and hoping to fly under the hacker radar?
‘They
were obviously not monitoring at an appropriate level’: Before Wawa
data breach, Visa warned it could happen
About
a month before Wawa
disclosed a data breach exposing
customers’ credit and debit card numbers, the nation’s largest
credit card network warned that hackers were targeting gas stations
to steal payment card information.
Visa reported
in November that
gas stations emerged as attractive targets for cybercriminals because
many have been slow to adopt more-secure payment-processing
technology. Specifically, Visa said the attacks could continue as
long as gas stations used magnetic-stripe readers to accept card
payments, instead of devices that take cards equipped with computer
chips.
Wawa
said this week that it is implementing chip technology at gas pumps
and expects all pumps to be upgraded in 2020.
An
investigation into Wawa’s data breach is
continuing, and it’s unclear how malicious software got on Wawa’s
payment-processing servers.
… “Fuel
dispenser merchants should take note of this activity as the group’s
operations are significantly
more advanced than fuel dispenser skimming, and these
attacks have the potential to compromise a high volume of payment
accounts,” Visa’s fraud unit warned.
… Wawa
has said malware was on its store systems starting after March 4,
about eight months before Visa warned of the attacks on Nov. 14.
Wawa said it found the malware on Dec. 10 and contained it by Dec.
12, but by then cardholder names, numbers, and expiration dates used
in-store and at gas pumps were compromised. The breach went
undetected for roughly nine months.
It
is good to see that Yasmin is on the job!
California
Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA")
On
Jan 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) finally
came to fruition. The
act has been criticized for its ambiguity and hasty legislative
enactment.
Many
liken CCPA to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation of the EU).
Even though there are many similarities, these regulations are not
identical. If you comply with GDPR, you’re not automatically in
compliance with CCPA. It’s important to dive further and work with
your legal team to make sure your company is truly set. If you’re
sweating about CCPA, it’s time to start moving. We’re
currently in the six-month grace period, and you don’t want to be a
sitting duck with fines.
As
goes California, so goes the Mozilla browser.
Mozilla:
All Firefox users get California's CCPA privacy rights to delete
personal data
The
next version of Firefox will give users a way of requesting Mozilla
delete their telemetry data.
Foodal
recognition? Toys for those rich enough to have cooks.
Samsung
and LG go head to head with AI-powered fridges that recognize food
Get
ready for a smart fridge showdown at CES 2020, because Samsung and LG
will both be unveiling fridges with added artificial intelligence
capabilities this year. Samsung’s latest edition of its Family Hub
refrigerator and LG’s second-generation InstaView ThinQ fridge both
tout AI-equipped cameras that can identify food. The idea is that
the cameras can scan what’s inside and let users know what items
they’re short on, even making meal suggestions based on the
ingredients they still have.
Talking about AI with my students.
Analytics,
AI and Insights: 5 Innovations That Redefined Legal Research Since
2010
Lexis and Westlaw laid the foundations for today’s
online research market in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Their dominance
in the legal research arena was challenged on two fronts in the
2010’s. First they were challenged by the emergence of two full
service competitors: Bloomberg Law and Fastcase. More surprising was
the disruptive impact of the disgruntled, entrepreneur lawyers with a
good idea and some venture capital who invented some completely new
ways of approaching research and delivering insights..
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