Down The Security Rabbithole

Topics covered In the wake of the Target & Nieman Marcus breaches - is chip+pin really a priority right now, and does it solve the real problem? - http://blogs.csoonline.com/security-leadership/2977/does-chip-and-pin-actually-solve-problem-find-out-asking-these-questions Speaking of Target ... it turns out that 3rd parties really are a problem and still a blind spot in many organizations' risk matrices, who knew - http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/target-hackers-broke-in-via-hvac-company/ Apparently NBC News doesn't believe it's stretching the news at all, when it virtually makes up a story then gets called out by Robert Graham, hilarity ensues - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57618533-83/sochi-hack-report-fraudulent-security-researcher-charges/ Something bad, very, very bad just happened over at Barclays in the UK ... although jury seems to still be out on what exactly is going on; you can bet we're going to keep an eye on this - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/10/barclays_investigates_gold_mine