Posted by admin on January 27, 2012
Zappos recently announced that they had been the victim of a cyber attack and that their 24+ million customers would be contacted about the incident. The database accessed did not include credit card or payment data and Zappos has already performed a reset on customer passwords. The breached information included name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses, [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | 
Tags: Banking Information, Breach, Consumers, Corporate Perspective, Customer Passwords, Cyber Attack, Cyber Criminals, E Mail Address, Encrypted Passwords, Forbes, Fraud, Great Time, Identity Theft, Last Four Digits, Password Reset, Phone Number, Precaution, Shipping Addresses, Source Of Information, Zappos | 
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Posted by admin on April 9, 2011
Marketing outsourcer Epsilon Data Management has notified 2% of its client base that it detected a major data breach last week. Though 2% may sound small, that breach has affected millions of people. The breached information included names and email addresses, and affected a list of at least 57 corporations including Best Buy, Capital One, [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Additional Security Measures, Best Buy, Capital One, Corporate Perspective, Corporations, Cto, Data Breach, Data Retention, Email Addresses, Epsilon Data Management, Hackers, Marketing Data, Marketing Management, Notifications, Retention Policies, Security Protocols, Target, Tivo, Walgreens, Wsj | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 28, 2010
I have to admit, I’m a sucker for a good title. This post on Help Net Security – “Online Fraud: Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins” – caught my eye for obvious reasons. It’s a basic 7-step program to reduce the treat of online transactions from the corporate perspective – not the consumer perspective, as is [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: 7 Deadly Sins, 7 Sins, Bots, Business Online, Consumer Perspective, Corporate Perspective, Doing Business, Help Net Security, Image Clipart, Mask, Mobile Commerce, Online Fraud, Risk, Scripts, Secure Online Transactions, Secure Transactions, Security Fraud, Sensitive Data, Seven Deadly Sins, Sucker | No Comments »
