Security Breach at Unique Vintage

Albert Zenkoff
2013-09-27
Management, breach, credit card, customer information, exposure, news, rules, security diligence, user information, web

There is news that women’s clothing website Unique Vintage has sent notifications to the customers that the site has been breached and the customer information was exposed. What is interesting is that the website is fully PCI compliant, i.e. it follows all rules for security set forth by the credit card industry. And still, it ...

Albert Zenkoff
2013-09-20
Society, cloud, control access, general, initiative, manifesto, own data, philosophy, privacy, private data, storage, transparency

Having a confirmation that the governments spy on people on the Internet and have access to the private data they should not sparked some interesting initiatives. One of such interesting initiatives is the User Data Manifesto: 1. Own the data The data that someone directly or indirectly creates belongs to the person who created it. ...

Albert Zenkoff
2013-09-12
Society, BlackBerry, give up privacy, Google, internet, mobile phone control, moral obligation, news, NSA, privacy, protection, Vint Cerf

I do not often want to comment the news so today is a special day. The first piece is an article on the popular subject of NSA Web Surveillance quoting some well-known people starts off on a good direction but gets derailed somehow into recommending obscurity for security. Strange as it is we really should ...

Nokia is gone. So is mobile security.

Albert Zenkoff
2013-09-06
Society, Apple, Google, inevitability, Microsoft, mobile, Nokia, NSA, orchestrated takeover, privacy, surveillance

The recent acquisition of Nokia by Microsoft stirred up investors and Nokia fans. But, the question goes, what does it have to do with security? (Not) Surprisingly, a lot. Working in security makes people slightly paranoid over time, that is a fact. On the one hand, without being suspicious of everything and checking all strangeness ...

Security Breach at Unique Vintage