Third party vendor hacked – caused Goodwill and more CC breaches

Krebsonsecurity has the story again.

C&K Systems performs a portion of Credit card and Debit card transaction processing. The most disturbing aspect of this breach knowledge is that they did not learn anything for 18 months.

The problem with the head in the sand – no problems in my backyard method of management is eventually a problem of unimaginable proportion comes home to roost.

No auditing – No testing of your systems on the Internet == Hackers get into your systems and take over eventually

The only way to know your hacker profile is to scan and test(penetration test) as a hacker.

 

Inevitably  the company hacked gets security solutions after the hack.

They (C&K Systems will use the “new” from 10/30/2013 PCI Standards method) It has Point two Point encryption.

 

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