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Target store hacks could have been avoided.

posted by Dopefish on Saturday February 15 2014, @03:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the credit-card-theft-is-too-easy dept.

Gaaark writes:

"Unfortunately, this article is paywalled, but, according to the Wall Street Journal, 'Target security staff raised concerns about vulnerabilities in the retailer's payment card system at least two months before hackers stole 40 million credit and debit card numbers from its servers,' people familiar with the matter said.

To me, if your security staff are worrying about something THIS important, someone should be listening!"

[Ed. Note] For those looking for an alternate source to this news, which not behind a paywall, see this post by ABC News 10.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by cge on Saturday February 15 2014, @05:18PM

    by cge (67) on Saturday February 15 2014, @05:18PM (#179)

    I'm not sure that these sorts of after-the-fact discoveries of small warnings are particularly constructive. In a large enough organization, there will usually always be someone concerned about anything; here, it appears that it was "at least one analyst," who had non-specific concerns about malware vulnerability and wanted a more thorough review.

    It's easy to go back, after something happens, and say that some small non-specific warning should have prevented it.

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