May 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Popular restaurant chain Noodles & Company is reportedly investigating a possible credit card breach. Asked to comment on the reports, Broomfield, Colo.-based Noodles & Company issued the following statement: “We are currently investigating some unusual...
May 16, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
By Stephen Cobb Security professionals gave a large collective sigh of sadness this past weekend when BoingBoing published this headline by Cory Doctorow: “Half of Americans reluctant to shop online due to privacy & security fears.” Sarcastic remarks like “No...
May 15, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
The Swift global financial messaging network, which is used by banks to move billions of dollars daily has reported that another malicious attack on a bank has attempted to make us of their messaging system to potentially steal millions. The announcement by Swift...
May 12, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
Wendy’s restaurants has released information about the investigation a breach in at least 300 of their 5,500 restaurants. Wendy’s said today that an investigation into a credit card breach at the nationwide fast-food chain uncovered malicious software on...
May 10, 2016 | Data Breaches, General Security, Sophos
In the Sophos Blog – Naked Security – it has been reported that Google employee data was breached by being inadvertently emailed to the wrong client by a benefits company. Did you know that a UTM can detect data-loss? Someone working at the third-party...
May 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Reported late last week was an article that exposed a data-loss (breach) where Cyber Criminals stole W-2s from the Credit Bureau Equifax. We will be referring to this as the ‘Equifax Breach’ here on out. So far, the only place we have been able to find...