Neiman Marcus Exploit – 60,000 Warnings Ignored
Businessweek.com is reporting that during the 3 1/2 month cyberattack on Neiman Marcus, over 60,000 alarms were triggered that were ignored by Neiman Marcus cybersecurity experts. Ginger Reeder, a spokeswoman for Neiman Marcus, says the hackers were sophisticated, giving their software a name nearly identical to the company’s payment software, so any alerts would go unnoticed amid the deluge of data routinely reviewed by the company’s security team. “These 60,000 entries, which occurred over a three-and-a-half month period, would have been on average around 1 percent or less of the daily entries on these endpoint protection logs, which have tens [...]