TJX- SECURITY BREACH MGSC 6201-02 INDUSTRY/COMPANY CONTEXT: TJX Companies‚ based in Framingham‚ MA‚ was a major participant in the discount fashion and retail industry. The TJX brand had presence in the United States as well as in Canada and Europe. In mid-2005‚ investigators were made aware of serious security breaches experienced in TJX’s credit card system. These breaches were first found at a Marshall’s located in St Paul‚ MN in which the hackers implemented a “war driving” tactic to steal
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information. For many people‚ this is considered a breach of security. According to wisegeek.com‚ a security breach is “an incursion into a computer or network of computers‚ usually by hackers or malicious software that compromises sensitive data or causes damage to computers or network function.”1 Most of the time these so-called “computer hackers” find ways to evade security systems to steal important personal information such as social security numbers‚ home addresses and banking information. These
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A National Security Breach Citi mortgage‚ a subsidiary of Citi Bank has issued a national PR release. Citi Mortgage of Fenton‚ Missouri‚ has publicly notified the public as of May 20‚ 2006 several hundred mortgage applications filed by previous Citi Mortgage customers have been lost by The United Parcel Service package company of Earth City‚ Missouri. Citi mortgage member’s social security numbers‚ salary information‚ bank account identification numbers and the home address of clients and their
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iPad’s Security Breach Meredith Morrison Strayer University BUS 508 [ November 26‚ 2012 ] Dr. Ronald Steffel The Goatse Security firm’s possible objectives when they hacked into AT&T’s Website was to test for security. If they could hack into the system‚ so can any other hacker (iPad Security Breach‚ 2010). The Goatse Security firm wanted to confirm that if they could gather e-mail addresses‚ discovering vulnerability‚ so can people who are hackers. “We’ve reached out to the
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at any place and any time when talking about computer security incidents. Not everything goes perfectly fine when a computer system is involved. It could be something as simple as a bad cable or it could be as horrible as a hacker trying to steal all of your information. Either way‚ it probably isn’t going to end well. Additionally‚ the FBI and the Computer Security Institute‚ in their annual survey on computer crime and information security‚ gathered the following disturbing facts in 1998: 1)
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Security Breach Plan Bridget Baca HCS/533 January 28‚ 2012 Chong Daleiden Security Breach Plan Patient privacy and security is one of the most important aspects of the St. Johns Hospital code of conduct‚ they take pride in the sound policies and procedures set to maintain customer confidentiality. Each employee is held to a high standard of maintaining the highest level of privacy and confidentiality when it comes to patient health information (PHI). This paper will outline the plan that
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TJX corporate systems had poor security controls. The computer kiosks that were located in some of their stores were supposed to be secure. They also had some firewall protection. TJX wireless network was protected by WEP encryption system. The computer kiosks were poorly secured; the kiosks were accessible from the back which made them vulnerable to tampering. The computer firewalls set up did not block malicious traffic coming from the kiosks. The wireless network used an old encryption
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As Target continues to respond to the security breach that has now been estimated to affect up to 110 million people by NBC News.com‚ analysts continue to zero in on the statements and actions by CEO‚ Gregg Steinhafel. And positively so. In the Wall Street Journal article titled‚ “Target Tried Antitheft Cards‚” authors Paul Ziobro and Robin Sidel highlight statements now being made by Steinhafel and actions taken in the past concerning chip-based credit cards. Although the article states that
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TJX Companies Jim Blackwood IT/205 January-9th‚ 2013 Gelonda Martin TJX Companies The TJC Corporation failed to protect its customers by allowing one of the largest security breaches in history. In 2007 they announced that an unauthorized user had accessed their system and compromised over 40 million customers’ data such as credit cards‚ debit cards and personal pin numbers. TJX was using an older security protocol called WEP which had proven to be easy to access by hackers and had
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TJX Companies List and describe the security controls in place. Where are the weaknesses? TJX companies had very little security measures in place‚ and even the ones they had were mostly outdated. The company was using a Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) network encryption system. By today’s standards‚ and even at the time of intrusion‚ it is a fairly insecure system and is considered easy to hack into. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)‚ a more complex encryption system‚ was already available at the
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