Estimating the Social Cost of Corporate Data Breaches

While the size of a data breach is typically measured by the number of consumer, customer, or user records exposed or compromised, its economic impact is generally measured from the point of view of the corporation suffering the data breach: cost in crisis management, legal fees, drop in stock...

Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

On Dec. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. The malware used in the Target breach included the text string "Rescator," which also...

76M Households, 7M Businesses Impacted in JPMorgan Chase Breach

A securities filing on Thursday revealed that up to 76 million households and seven million small businesses, far more than initially thought, were implicated in the cyber attack that hit JPMorgan Chase over the summer, making it one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history. The New York-base...

jQuery Official Website Compromised To Serve Malware

The official website of the popular cross-platform JavaScript library jQuery jquery.com has been compromised and redirecting its visitors to a third-party website hosting the RIG exploit kit, in order to distribute information-stealing malware. JQuery is a free and open source JavaScript library...

Remote Access Hack Compromises POS Vendor

A popular point of sale vendor may have suffered a data breach earlier this year that could affect customers of a handful of Pacific Northwest restaurants. Vancouver, Wash.-based Information Systems & Supplies, a supplier of POS systems to restaurants such as Dairy Queen, Buffalo Wild Wings and...

2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR

The attention given to the Target data breach elevated concerns about point-of-sale hacks and got us reacquainted with RAM scrapers and other threats to retailers big and small. And while it’s been a noteworthy highlight to the annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report for the past few...

University Data Breaches Pose Threat to Students, Academic Openness

North Dakota State University administrators confirmed last week that hackers never accessed the personal information of more than 200,000 students, faculty and staff housed on the server they successfully infiltrated. This attack perfectly suits the modern hackers MO. They attack open systems...

Target Hackers Broke in Via HVAC Company?

When I first heard about the account used to gain access to the Target environment, my first reaction was to laugh at the ridiculousness of the HVAC vendor having an impact on the CDE like it seems to or is rumored to have had in the recent breach. Then I started thinking with the PCI controls,...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the Target Breach, SCADA Security and the NSA

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the big security stories of the last couple of weeks, including the developments in the Target data breach, the president’s speech on NSA surveillance reforms and SCADA security woes...