Utah Department of Health Data Security Breach September 12‚ 2013 Accounting Information Systems Utah Department of Health Data Security Breach Introduction On March 10‚ 2012‚ thousands of people fell victim to having their social security numbers‚ birthdays‚ names‚ addresses‚ and even their medical diagnosis stolen by computer hackers. On April 2‚ 2012‚ the breach was realized and 780‚000 people learned that their identities were stolen and would now need to monitor their credit
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As Target continues to respond to the security breach that has now been estimated to affect up to 110 million people by NBC News.com‚ analysts continue to zero in on the statements and actions by CEO‚ Gregg Steinhafel. And positively so. In the Wall Street Journal article titled‚ “Target Tried Antitheft Cards‚” authors Paul Ziobro and Robin Sidel highlight statements now being made by Steinhafel and actions taken in the past concerning chip-based credit cards. Although the article states that
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TJX Companies Jim Blackwood IT/205 January-9th‚ 2013 Gelonda Martin TJX Companies The TJC Corporation failed to protect its customers by allowing one of the largest security breaches in history. In 2007 they announced that an unauthorized user had accessed their system and compromised over 40 million customers’ data such as credit cards‚ debit cards and personal pin numbers. TJX was using an older security protocol called WEP which had proven to be easy to access by hackers and had
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T.J.X. Companies‚ Inc. Final Case Study Report Nichols College T.J.X. Companies‚ Inc. is the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the United States and worldwide‚ ranking number 115 in the most recent Fortune 500 listings. They have the broadest demographic reaches in retail‚ all of which have enabled them to achieve successful‚ and profitable growth year after year‚ through many types of economic and retail cycles. With over
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TJX Companies List and describe the security controls in place. Where are the weaknesses? TJX companies had very little security measures in place‚ and even the ones they had were mostly outdated. The company was using a Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) network encryption system. By today’s standards‚ and even at the time of intrusion‚ it is a fairly insecure system and is considered easy to hack into. Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)‚ a more complex encryption system‚ was already available at the
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eStore at Shell Case Analysis – Student sample Case Synopsis In 2002 Shell Canada‚ a large Oil and Gas company‚ launched the eStore software application to service their price-sensitive Agricultural market segment by offering a lower cost service. Calvin Wright (eProduct manager) helped implement the eStore application‚ which was geared to service this Agricultural Segment market. The Agricultural Segment was considered by Shell to be high costs since local sales representatives were used in
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TJX‚ comprised of T.J.Maxx‚ Home Goods‚ and Marshalls‚ experienced increased sales in the year of 2012. TJX reaches out to customers not only in the United States‚ but also in Canada and Europe. It has been a long term goal for TJX to increase the diversity of their customers‚ and fortunately‚ more and more young customers have been shopping with TJX this past year. TJX is a $26 billion dollar business and CEO Carol Meyrowitz hopes to reach a $40 billion dollar goal in the near future. Sales
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Checkpoint – TJX Companies IT/205 Joshua Bailey The credit card data theft that TJX Companies experienced happened because they were using WEP wireless security‚ which is the weakest form of wireless encryption today‚ and hackers could access the credit card data easily. If TJX had taken the time to implement a stronger encryption method‚ thousands of dollars would have been saved by the company. Proper site surveying could also have prevented the attackers from making a breach. TJX Companies
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Both Ross and TJX are growing and remaining financially sound. As an off-price storefront retailer in a market where there is a growing e-commerce presence‚ that can be somewhat difficult. But fortunately‚ these two companies are striving and remain above majority of their competitors. Ross is a growing company that has only barely tapped into their market. With stores in only 36 states‚ there is still plenty of room to expand and reach more customers‚ without having to invest in creating any new
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Sony Play Station Security Breach It is almost impossible to find the top reasons why most security breaches happen on a secure network compromising hundreds to thousands of users’ personal information. To protect a network and thoroughly secure confidential information‚ one has to examine the top vulnerabilities and think outside of the normal box to protect it. When a security breach happens‚ there is usually a pretty simple reason why it has happened. I will discuss one of the highly publicized
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