And they say crime doesn’t pay…did you know cybercrime kingpins recruit new employees with incentives like a Ferrari and glamorous female assistants? This might be a good time to review if your company has the best safeguards in place.
Ms. Smith’s blog
A Hungarian man pleaded guilty to charges of hacking into the Marriott International Corp.’s computers and threatening to expose the hotel’s confidential information and inject malware into its computer if it didn’t hire him to maintain the company’s computers.
Attila Nemeth, 26, pleaded guilty under an agreement that would give him a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for the transmission of the malicious code and a maximum of five years in prison for his threats to expose confidential information, said a Department of Justice statement on Nov. 23.
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Wal-Mart was the victim of a serious security breach in 2005 and 2006 in which hackers targeted the development team in charge of the chain’s point-of-sale system and siphoned source code and other sensitive data to a computer in Eastern Europe …