Jimmy Jones Hacked

This new report from Jimmy Jones states from

"Signature Systems Inc., the point-of-sale vendor blamed for a credit and debit card breach involving some 216 Jimmy John’s sandwich shop locations, now says the breach also may have jeopardized customer card numbers at nearly 100 other independent restaurants across the country that use its products."

Also said that
"That hackers had installed card-stealing malware on cash registers at some of its store locations. Jimmy John’s"

Most the problem in this breach could of been stopped if proper procedures and testing occurred be the installation of the product. Signature System will be facing fines for installing the product that was not approved.

More information can be found at http://krebsonsecurity.com/

US House Approves New Law to Discourage Trade Secret Theft

This move by the House is to help protect companies from IP attacks and allow them to seek civil penalties.

 It was stated, “They said that US trade secrets – worth $5 trillion in 2009 – have become more vulnerable to theft as a result of the globalized economy.”

These lawmakers are overwhelmed by the constant attack by the Chinese on use compies and governments. 

Laws like this are to help deter internal secret sharing

More can be read at:

http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-house-approve-law-discourage-ip-1/

Entire database exposed at eBay

"eBay's database of names, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, and dates of birth was compromised in late February and early March, 2014."

Is seems that EBay is gone asleep. This article says that he believe big corporation heads are all old or "White Heads" as he calls them. They live in the dark ages and don't take the threat serious enough.  This made me laugh!!

Here is the link
http://www.cnet.com/pictures/the-credit-card-data-breaches-retailers/7/

Home Depot Hacked

How many times can this happen? It would seem that hacking has become a full time job for some.

CNN has create a application that you can select and see what information has been share to the

hacker.  Take a look  http://money.cnn.com/interactive/technology/what-do-hackers-have-on-you/