Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
Information is Beautiful has created a diagrammatical tour de force, carving the litany of questionable security competence within the compromised companies, onto like-minded information security architects, engineers and researchers.
Read it and weep my friends...
Municipalities just as private corporations, engage in seemingly mad, long dashes for revenue; to what end? In this case, speeding and red light traffic infraction generated income is the goal, whilst minimizing law enforcement hands on in the process. Unfortunately, the corporate entity that facilitates that revenue stream with traffic recording devices and cameras apparently possess clear-cut, if you will, evidence of proverbial feet of clay...
via Michael Riley, writing at Bloomberg Businessweek, comes the sordid tale, with film-noir-like building-blocks, of miscreant Russian nationals targeting the NASDAQ stock exchange, the kicker? They succeeded...
Via the inimitable Brian Krebs, of Krebs on Security, comes reports of insert, thin and mini card skimmers, and the perils of automated banking and commerce for consumers worldwide. The astonishing component to this litany of miscreant evil-doers is the apparent inability of hardware manufacturers' to detect, notify and terminate these devices at will [or, at the very least, reject all cards on the machine when nefarious activities are suspected].
Evidence of extortion racketeering bubbles up through the flotsam of crime targeting tech sector entities , worldwide. Bad tidings, yet hardly surprising.