It seems Six Continents Hotels (InterContinental Hotel Groups) was notified earlier this year by the Secret Service that some of its hotels had suffered a data security breach. One of the hotels IHG subsequently notified was Cities Service (Holiday Inn Express & Suites in Sulphur, Louisiana). IHG alerted them on February 11, 2015. When Cities Service…
Month: May 2015
Ca: Prime Minister’s Office removes videos from online site which may show soldiers’ faces
A series of videos distributed by the Prime Minister’s Office, some of which showed the faces of the country’s special forces soldiers, were abruptly pulled offline early Tuesday in an embarrassing security breach. The videos, on Stephen Harper’s official 24-Seven feed, were taken during his recent whirlwind trip to Iraq and Kuwait, where the travelling media were…
Criminal Attacks Are Now Leading Cause of Data Breach in Healthcare, According to New Ponemon Study
The healthcare industry is experiencing a surge in data breaches, security incidents, and criminal attacks—exposing millions of patients and their medical records—according to the latest Ponemon Institute study, sponsored by ID Experts®, the Fifth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy & Security of Healthcare Data. The study reveals that criminal attacks in healthcare are up 125 percent since 2010…
Are you closing the door fast enough?
According to a recent survey by IS Decisions, 75% of businesses leave themselves open to infosecurity breaches from former employees by not following strict post-employment processes to ensure employees no longer have access to information. FreshBusinessThinking.com has more on the survey. Now add in the risks of employees who know they will be leaving their jobs…
Attackers target new XSS in millions of WordPress sites
This vulnerability was found in a Twenty Fifteen plugin called JetPak. You all know what to do by now.
JP Morgan bank bod accused of flogging customer account info
Iain Thomson reports: The FBI has charged a former JP Morgan employee with selling customer information to thieves who wanted to empty accounts without triggering any alarms. Unsealed court records [PDF] recount that Peter Persaud, who worked at JP Morgan’s Brooklyn branch, contacted an undercover FBI informant, and allegedly offered to sell him the account details of…