Data Security
May 25, 2017 at 9:22 am
PCI (payment card industry) compliance may not be a term you hear as often as a small business owner. However, it has noteworthy impact to the level of risk your business assumes in payment processing if you accept credit and debit cards from customers as a form of payment. Despite media headlines that tend to…
May 24, 2017 at 10:24 am
Target Corp. will pay 47 states and the District of Columbia a total of $18.5 million as part of a settlement over its 2013 data breach. The breach compromised tens of millions of customers’ credit and debit cards, and led to the resignation of longtime CEO Gregg Steinhafel. As part of the settlement, Target will…
May 17, 2017 at 11:16 am
A software glitch caused some issues for Starbucks yesterday. Reports say a software update caused registers at some U.S. and Canadian locations to go offline, forcing Starbucks to give away free coffee. Madeleine Lowenborg-Frick, a Starbucks spokeswoman, said most stores were back online as of late Tuesday night. She also stated the glitch was due…
May 15, 2017 at 3:49 pm
PCI (payment card industry) compliance may not be a term you hear as often as a small business owner. However, it has noteworthy impact to the level of risk your business assumes in payment processing if you accept credit and debit cards from customers as a form of payment. Despite that media headlines tend to…
May 15, 2017 at 10:53 am
Brooks Brothers said Friday it recently became aware of a security incident, which could impact the payment card information of customers who purchased items at its stores between April 4, 2016 and March 1. The upscale men's apparel retailer said the identified malicious software could have impacted users’ names, payment card account numbers, card expiration dates…
May 15, 2017 at 10:18 am
The modern marketplace has increasingly shifted toward the internet, which is great for online retailers and businesses. Unfortunately, however, cybercrime has exploded in recent years, and it isn't just large corporations feeling the heat. More than 60 percent of online attacks target small and midsized businesses. To prepare and guard against this new reality, consider…
May 10, 2017 at 2:14 pm
Staples announced this week that Brett Wahlin has been appointed to the role of chief information security officer (CISO). In this new role, Wahlin will be responsible for global enterprisewide information, product and data security, and will be key in the digital transformation of Staples’ business. Wahlin’s responsibilities expand beyond traditional cyber security into product development, connected devices,…
May 2, 2017 at 10:56 am
E-commerce has become big business for a rapidly expanding ecosystem of internet retailers. A recent survey found that eight out of 10 Americans consider themselves online shoppers, and most make half of their purchases on the web now. With this growth comes a downside — more opportunity for cyber attacks. As retailers expand their businesses…
May 1, 2017 at 1:19 pm
The Home Depot is currently investigating how and why a spreadsheet listing about 8,000 customers, along with their transaction data and a range of personal information, was posted for an unknown amount of time on a Home Depot website. No financial data was part of the list, which didn't compare with the 2014 data breach…
May 1, 2017 at 11:02 am
Call it optimism or just human nature — retailers, like most people, don’t like to spend a lot of time thinking about unseen threats. A series of painful breaches a few years ago forced the industry to wake up to the dangers of cyber crime and implement new measures to address and control online risks,…
