Down The Security Rabbithole

Topics covered Target CIO resigns, new central CISO and CCO roles created; but what's really going on here? - http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/target-begins-security-and-compliance-ma/240166451 & http://pressroom.target.com/news/target-reports-third-quarter-2013-earnings City of Detroit employees' information (including SSNs, DoB, etc) are "at risk" because someone clicked something they shouldn't have - http://www.freep.com/article/20140303/NEWS01/303030085/Detroit-computer-security-breach ComiXology was [big time] hacked, but it's all good because the passwords were 'cryptographically secured' but where's the transparency? - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/07/comixologys_phantom_zone_breached_by_evil_haxxor/ A North Dakota University System was hacked and now 290k students, employees and faculty (yes including SSNs) data is at risk ... or is it? - http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/8f909740809e48e9a5669de333418134/US--University-System-Hacked NC State researchers have a genius