Posted August 31, 2012, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
A new service called DipJar allows customers to tip baristas at coffee shops using their credit or debit cards. The hardware is currently being tested in a select number of New York City coffee shops and if successful, could expand…
Starbucks, a company known for its forward-thinking nature and $1.95 cups of coffee, has made a deal with credit card processing outfit Square. Square will be providing the popular caffeine-based franchise with its payment processing services while Starbucks invests a…
Posted March 23, 2012, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Making note of the social unrest which unfolded in 2011, Verizon's 2012 data breach investigation report (very large pdf) highlights a tumultuous year for computer and network security. Although a couple of numbers were down from previous years, attacks related…
Posted January 19, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
The ongoing saga between pro and anti-Israeli hackers continues to escalate as pro-Israel attackers use distributed denial of service attacks to take down the websites of three notable Saudi banks. In addition, hackers have released over 4,500 Saudi credits card…
Posted January 13, 2012, 1:41 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
On Friday, a group of purportedly Gazan hackers defaced Israel's Fire and Rescue Services website. They added a "death to Israel" message to the website and modified a picture of Danny Ayalon, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, superimposing foot prints over his…
Posted January 9, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
Last week, a hacker known as "0xOmar" (also being mistakenly reported as OxOmar by most news media) took credit for publishing an illicit bounty of 400,000 credit card numbers, a claim yet to be fully corroborated by news agencies. On…
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