1.0 Incident:
The Arby’s fast-food chain recently experienced a data breach. The breach introduced malicious software that was similar to other recent point-of-sales malware, onto the company’s payment card systems at hundred of its corporate locations across the nation. Arby’s would not inform the public of how long the malware was thought to have been on their systems, however, it is estimated to transpire some time between October 25, 2016 and January 19, 2017.
2.0 Analysis:
According to the Fast Food Chain Arby’s Acknowledges Breach article, the first clues about a possible breach at the fast-food chain came in a non-public alert delivered by the Payment Solutions for Credit Unions (PSCU), who obliges to over eight hundred credit unions. This alert also provided that the breach compromised a total of more than 355,000 credit and debit cards from Arby’s.
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The malware is generally introduced in one of two ways, via hacked remote administration tools like LogMeIn or by phishing, and when the malware is installed onto the system; attackers can capture customer data remotely. It is uncertain exactly how the malware was introduced in this particular situation, however, Arby’s has controlled the situation and cleaned any malware off their systems.
3.0 Assessment:
This had a big impact on both Arby’s and credit/debit card companies. There were over a quarter of a million credit and debit cards compromised. Many banks and credit unions may have to reissue new cards to these members. They might also have to reimburse any unauthorized transactions because account holders are not liable for any fraudulent charges if reported. Arby’s also had to spend a lot of time, money, and resources to eradicate the malware from their systems.
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Issa utilizes statistics to suggest ideas. He says, “The Office of Personnel Management’s security breach resulted in the theft of 22 million Americans’ information, including fingerprints, Social Security numbers, addresses, employment history, and financial records” (Issa). Issa also adds that, “The Internal Revenue Service’s hack left as many as 334,000 taxpayers accounts compromised‑though just this week, the IRS revised that number to o...
The year 2013 was not one marked for pride for the retail chain, Target. They had one of the largest data breaches known to date that occurred between November 27th and December 15th. Not only was this the one of the largest attacks known to date of this kind, it was also quite eye opening to many who may not have paid any attention to the world of information security. The Target hack resulted in 40 million compromised credit and debit card accounts and that was just the initial known result. After some time, the research revealed that a total of as many as 110 million Target customers were the victims of this gigantic hack. Although computer crimes occur within the United States often, the bigger problem is that criminals from other countries across the oceans are attacking as well.
January 31, 2017 marks the official end of the investigation regarding the St. Louis Cardinals’ hacking of the Houston Astros’ database. The investigation revealed that the hacker, Chris Correa, worked alone, using a master password list from former Cardinals employees to gain access into the Astros’ system. Many consequences result from this hacking, so the communications team has provided several recommendations to address stakeholder concerns and to ensure that a similar incident will not occur again.
Affected: 40 million credit and debit card accounts, as well as data on 70 million
This analysis will explore The Home Depot data breach which occurred on Sept 8th, 2014, one of the nation’s largest security retail compromises of that time. The Home Depot, with over 2,200+ stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico, suffered a historic cyber-attack of significant proportions. The breach was devised by skilled hackers who developed an unknown custom malware that penetrated their payment systems and stole over 56 million credit cards and email addresses from millions of customers. In my research of this case, it was difficult for me to comprehend that the world’s leading home improvement retailer could be so careless given this breach occurred less than a year after the Target data breach in December 2013. This evaluation of The Home Depot will examine the company’s discovery of the breach, their response to customers, improved data security measures, and finally the outcome including present day findings
Computer crime has been an issue since the beginning of computers. Wherever there is something good, there is always someone who takes advantage of it. This can be seen in cyber crime, which has been on the rise in recent years. According to the Los Angeles Times, the median cost of computer crime to a company per year has risen from $3.8 million dollars in 2010 to $5.9 million. (Rodriguez, 2011) This suggests that computer crime is becoming an even bigger hazard to companies. A recent example of this was the data breach committed against Target in 2013.
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About 15 million United States residents have their identities and information used fraudulently each year. Along the use of their identities, they also had a combined financial loss totaling up to almost $50 billion. Major companies such as Apple, Verizon, Target, Sony, and many more have been victims of consumer information hacking. In each of the cases, millions of consumers’ personal information has been breached. In the article “Home Depot 's 56 Million Card Breach Bigger Than Target 's” on September 18, 2014, 56 million cards were breached due to cyber attackers. Before the Home Depot attack, Target had 40 million cards breached. Company’s information is constantly being breached and the consumers’ are the ones who end up having to pay the price. If a company cannot protect the information it takes, then it should not collect the information.
Nowadays, hacking systems which get the data from payment card in retail stores is a popular issue. The use of stolen third-party vendor credentials and RAM scraping malwares were the main reasons for the data breach. A brief introduction of when and how the Home Depot’s data breach took place and how the home depot reacted to the issue and rectified it by
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The internet and all technological advances give us easier communication and increase productivity, however, at what cost? The loss of one's privacy. It is okay only when it is violated for one's own protection. There are different reason, good and bad, for the loss in privacy. In 1984 the characters don't have privacy due to big brother always watching,the NSA does more snooping than securing, social media does more than connect friends, and technological advances make our lives easier.
However, the weird part about this scam is that the victims can't use their own credit or debit cards to make the payments – instead, they must purchase an anonymous debit card service (e.g. MoneyPak, Bitcoin) that supports anonymous identities of the perpetrators. Regretfully, most victims often go through the financial transaction, but in the end with their machines still locked, while the perpetrators walking away with the money. In addition, due to the extremely large key sizes the ransomware use, the machines that are affected are considered to be extremely difficult to repair.
Digital Evidence is electronic data, materials, objects, property, documents, or records that are presented in court to prove or disprove allegations made against an arrestee. It takes the form of electronic data or information stored in bits and bytes on magnetic media. The examples of devices that can contain digital evidence include; cellular phones or similar all in one devices, pagers, digital voice recorders.
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It is likewise disturbing when Das and Nayak (2016) report that in 2015, seventy five percent of private ventures detailed having encountered arrange security breaks. This is an expansion from the cases experienced in 2013 and 2014, a sign that cybercrime is turning into the most risky test to