JP Morgan, Home Depot,Target, Kaiser Health,Adobe All Big Data Breaches
My day job is a partner of GFI Software, Each day I speak to IT admins form very small to very large companies in North America, My focus is on Patch Management, Network Vulnerability Scanning,Windows Event Log Management, Securing network endpoints, W3C log management, as well as web security and email security.
Written by: March Thaler
Turn back the clock to late last year. At the height of the
holiday season, between November 27 and December 15, hackers certainly gave new meaning to the term “hit the bull’s-eye!”
Cybercriminals toyed with retail giant Target, known for the circular red and white logo that symbolizes its name. Information from 40 million guest debit and credit card accounts was stolen – or so it was thought. The initial estimate, already among the largest in U.S. corporate history, turned out to be a fraction of the total. Today, it ranges from 70 million to 110 million, depending on reports.
