Fast Company | Oct 3, 2014

An enormous privacy breach has compromised the bank accounts of 83 million JPMorgan Chase customers, including 76 million households, spilling out customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

“The fact that JPMorgan Chase could be breached should send a shiver of fear through every organization on the planet,” Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at RedSeal Networks, said in an email sent to Fast Company.

PaymentSource | Sep 22, 2014

Were the Home Depot and Target breaches the work of the same attackers? Only a few people seem to be in a position to know, and so far, they aren’t telling. However, we can still learn a lot from the similarity of the incidents. Read Dr. Mike Lloyd’s commentary on this topic in PaymentSource.

| Aug 22, 2014

Just as news of one large point of sale (SuperValu) hack begins to recede, another pops up to reclaim the headlines. This time the victim is shipping giant United Parcel Service (UPS), which has confirmed a long-running data breach at 51 of its UPS Stores, across 24 states.

“This shows that sophistication of IT isn’t an inoculation against a breach,” said Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at RedSeal Networks. “The combination of complexity and continuous change–including both growth and technological advancement–mean that it’s virtually impossible to be aware of all the potential paths of attack.”

New York Times | Aug 15, 2014

“This looks much the same as the attack that impacted Target last year,” said Steve Hultquist, an executive at RedSeal Networks, a security firm. “These breaches continue to demonstrate the sophistication of the attackers and the reward they receive being worth the investment they make in their attacks.”

The Green Sheet | Aug 1, 2014

The latest big breach apparently occurred at the nonprofit retail thrift store operator Goodwill Industries International Inc. The culprit: a new strain of malware called Backoff.

Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer at enterprise cyber security company RedSeal Networks, said the security and retail industries are keen on fighting fraud, even if a modicum of complacency has set in with consumers and the mass media.

“I guarantee if you’re a CEO, you are worried about breaches,” Rothrock said. “In fact, a lot of people these days are being asked by their boards and senior management, assume we will be breached because we will be. What’s your plan of response and remediation for it?”