Day: November 17, 2014

Link Found in Staples, Michaels Breaches

The breach at office supply chain Staple s impacted roughly 100 stores and was powered by some of the same criminal infrastructure seen in the intrusion disclosed earlier this year at Michaels craft stores, according to sources close to the investigation. Multiple banks interviewed by this author say they’ve received alerts from Visa and MasterCard about cards impacted in the breach at Staples, and that to date those alerts suggest that a subset of Staples stores were compromised between July and September 2014. Sources briefed on the ongoing investigation say it involved card-stealing malicious software that the intruders installed on cash registers at approximately 100 Staples locations.

STunnel Cipher List and Qualys SSL Labs Testing

In the wake of all the recent vulnerabilities we have been working hard to make sure that we give the correct information to our customers. So we decided to setup our latest version of STunnel on our support server (https://support.loadbalancer.org) and test our Cipher Lists with the Qualys SSL Labs site (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest)

Big Data in ITSM

When we talk about big data in the world of IT service management (ITSM), we’re talking about two very different things: ​ Big data tools/services that IT provides to business – to number crunch business operations data. Big data within IT operations – to handle and leverage complex IT operations data. Big data services for business operations In an increasingly competitive, data-driven world, business managers are looking for effective ways to manage and interpret business data, especially big data.​ Digitalized business operations, such as e-commerce websites and mobile banking apps, produce huge amounts of data, which makes managing them close to impossible by using traditional computational models.

Amazon: Spam Nation one of “Best of Month”

A quick update on my new book,  Spam Nation, The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door debuting on bookstore shelves  Tuesday, Nov. 18 :   Amazon has selected Spam Nation as one of their “ Best Books of the Month ” picks for November, listed alongside such notable authors as  Stephen King  and  Nora Roberts .