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On April 28, 2012

Don’t lose sight of compliance, ever.

According to a NACSOnline article, comsumption of gasoline has declined to an 11-year low, 4.3% below this time last year for the 110,000 independent gasoline retailers reeling from decreased demand, high prices and warehouse club competition. Although times may be tough for all retailers and cost ...

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On April 19, 2012

Verizon 2012 hacking report says activist groups were tied to a high percentage of worldwide hacking

The Verizon 2012 data breach Report of  2011 showed  855 breach incidents and 174 million compromised records.  They stated that 98% stemmed from External Agents and 4 % were internal employees, (58% of those data thefts were tied to activist groups.  “Most breaches were avoidable (at least in ...

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On April 14, 2012

What is an Advanced Persistent Threat?

Recently there has been a lot written about Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs.  In reviewing many definitions of these threats by industry experts and security organizations, here is a common definition of this newer type of threat that is increasingly making the news: Advanced ...

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On April 5, 2012

Cybersecurity: Why larger companies are more successful and better prepared to ward off threats

Larger companies consider cyber threat as a serious issue that could hinder their business.  They follow and keep up with best practice rules. Smaller companies pay less attention to several important areas, and mid-size ones fall somewhere in between the two.  Mid-size companies are inconsist ...

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On March 16, 2012

Using PcAnywhere for Remote Control of POS Systems? – FAIL!!!!!

H. D. Moore of leading vulnerability scanner company Rapid7 has just determined that as many as 200,000 systems connected to the Internet could be hijacked by hackers exploiting bugs in Symantec's pcAnywhere.   Even worse for those in retail, up to 5,000 of those are running point-of-sale software ...

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