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Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Automated Tank Gauge Systems
Bitsight TRACE explores several critical vulnerabilities discovered in ATG systems and their inherent risk when exposed to the Internet.
Earlier this month, tech security blogs and mainstream news outlets reported on a large data breach that affected banking giant JPMorgan Chase. During the event, which lasted from mid-July to mid-September, the personal information of customers who accessed online accounts of the bank’s UCARD product may have been exposed. While there seems to be no official word on the cause of the breach, the prevailing consensus from news sources is that unencrypted customer data was visible in plain text from logs that track user actions on the website. While the bank insists there is no evidence of illicit use of the compromised information, it is offering affected customers temporary credit monitoring.
The local news is abuzz with a story of Boston convention attendees being victims of a credit card data breach. The impact is small - only about 300 people have been affected - but there seems to be a lot of finger pointing and shuffling around while the conference organizers and convention center try to figure out which vendor is to blame.