Data at risk for about 50,000 current and former Uber drivers

SC Magazine | Mar 2, 2015

Uber announced on Friday that unauthorized access was gained to one of its databases in May 2014. That type of personal data can be used to obtain additional information on an individual, which can then be leveraged to commit identity theft, Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at RedSeal, told SCMagazine.com in a Monday email correspondence.

Natural Grocers investigating unauthorized access to POS systems

SC Magazine | Mar 2, 2015

That the company “can firmly state what kind of data was not stolen, because they simply do not gather it, is strong evidence of one of the emerging truths of cybersecurity: if you keep something, someone will test your defenses, and if they aren’t perfect, they’ll take whatever you kept,” said Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO at RedSeal, in a statement sent to SCMagazine.com. “As a result, the new rules say don’t keep it if you don’t need it.”