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Target To Pay Millions Of Dollars In Data Breach Settlement
Equities Focus A settlement amounting to $ 18.5 million will be paid by Target over a data breach that occurred in 2013. Over 41 million of Target's payment card accounts were affected in the data breach. The settlement was reached with 47 states plus the District of … |
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Parallax Primer: What's in a 'crime kit'
The Parallax (blog) When crime kits, which often are hosted on malicious websites or compromised websites, find a vulnerable machine to exploit, they typically download on to them a payload of malware such as ransomware, botnet components, or banking trojans. For this … |
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Target data breach settlement requires security improvements
TechTarget In the data breach settlement, Target agreed to pay $ 18.5 million to 47 states and the District of Columbia. More importantly, Target also agreed to follow certain guidelines to create a security program. Within 180 days of the agreement, the retail … |
Comcast’s customer satisfaction score for subscription TV service fell 6 percent in a new survey, putting the company near the bottom of rankings published by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
Comcast’s score fell from 62 to 58 on ACSI’s 100-point scale, a drop of more than 6 percent between 2016 and 2017. The ACSI’s 2017 report on telecommunications released this week attributed the decrease to “price hikes for Xfinity (Comcast) subscriptions.”
Satisfaction with pay-TV providers dropped industry-wide, tying the segment with Internet service (a product offered by the same companies) for last place in the ACSI’s rankings. The ACSI summarized the trend as follows:
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