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Exclusive: More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks - sources - Reuters

18/01/2014 17:57
BY JIM FINKLE AND MARK HOSENBALL BOSTON/WASHINGTON Sun Jan 12, 2014 4:26pm EST (Reuters) - Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that...

Privacy Fears Hit Retailers' Big Data Analytics Plans by Jeff Bertolucci

18/01/2014 09:50
Brick-and-mortar retailers plan to link in-store analytics with shoppers' mobile devices. Shoppers say not so fast.     Top 10 Retail CIO Priorities For 2014 (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Privacy will "almost certainly" be the leading big data issue this year as...

Target data breach could be costly for payment partners by Ross Kerber

16/01/2014 08:53
  BOSTON (Reuters) - Companies that help Target Corp process payments could face millions of dollars in fines and costs resulting from the unprecedented data breach that struck the retailer over the holiday shopping season. Investigators are still sorting through just how thieves compromised...

Software - the new battleground for carmakers by Edward Taylor and Ilona Wissenbach

14/01/2014 07:38
A BMW i3 electric vehicle is prepared for a display during set up for the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 4, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/STEVE MARCUS (Reuters) - The new Mercedes-Benz C-Class has cameras that can read road signs and...

Target Says Data Breach Affected Up To 70 Million Customers Sponsored by By Brian T. Horowitz

11/01/2014 08:52
Target has issued an update on a holiday-season data breach and says the debacle affected up to 70 million individuals, the company reported on Jan. 10. The retailer has been conducting a forensic investigation and discovered that additional customer information was stolen during the breach beyond...

U.S. study of automotive location data raises privacy concerns by Kate Kaye

11/01/2014 08:40
The government's research arm found that data-hungry in-car location services could use some improvement in the privacy and consumer notification departments. The Government Accountability Office's report prompted U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., the longtime comedian and political pundit, to call on...

Financial Institutions Privacy and Security – 2013 Year in Review By Anne Foster and Gerald Ferguson

10/01/2014 13:48
Throughout 2013, financial institutions continued to face serious threats from cybercriminals targeting the personal information of banking customers and their financial assets through the use of malicious software and denial of service attacks (DDoS).  In fact, according to the Verizon 2013...

Comment: Cybersecurity Lessons from the Financial Sector by Matthew Cohen, NT OBJECTives

10/01/2014 13:11
Creating a cybersecurity policy is hard, largely because it’s so difficult to define success. A national cybersecurity initiative should define the goals we want to achieve and provide incentives for the private and public sector to cooperate. According to Matthew Cohen of NT OBJECTives, once that...

Lessons learned from a Password Attack by Robert Siciliano

08/01/2014 19:30
It’s easy for millions of passwords to be stolen via hacking into Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts: It recently happened because malware was unknowingly downloaded into computers worldwide that extracted log-in information. The data was then directed to the hackers’ server, which was tracked to...

Cyber attack on Northampton insurance firm ‘potentially affected 93,000 customers' by Ian Gallagher

07/01/2014 13:03
Northampton-based insurance firm Staysure has written to more than 90,000 customers warning them they could have been victims of fraud, after their card details were stolen in a cyber attack. The security breach at the firm, which is based in The Lakes, happened in October last year, and led to the...
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