PCI

July 14, 2016

The Value of a Hacked Company

This post was originally published on this siteMost organizations only grow in security maturity the hard way — that is, from the intense learning that takes place in the wake of a costly data breach. That may be because so few company leaders really grasp the centrality of computer and network security to the organization’s overall goals and productivity, and fewer still have taken an honest inventory of what may be at stake in the event that these assets are compromised. If you’re unsure how much of your organization’s strategic assets may be intimately tied up with all this technology stuff, ask yourself what would […]
November 26, 2019

Sale of 4 Million Stolen Cards Tied to Breaches at 4 Restaurant Chains

This post was originally published on this siteOn Nov. 23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. KrebsOnSecurity has learned this latest batch of cards was siphoned from four different compromised restaurant chains that are most prevalent across the midwest and eastern United States. An advertisement on the cybercrime store Joker’s Stash for a new batch of ~4 million credit/debit cards stolen from four different restaurant chains across the midwest and eastern United States. Two financial industry sources who […]