The newest installment for "Threat Thursday" involves the security of your wireless LAN and may apply not only to your business, but your home as well. I just finished reading a great post by George Ou at ZDNet's blog regarding the disastrous security breach at TJ Maxx (TJX) that was disclosed last January where hackers obtained at least 45.7 million credit/debit-card numbers over an eighteen-month period and that number could possibly be as high as 200 million.
This breach may cost TJX over $4 billion dollars at $100 per lost record, but some sources report a more accurate cost of $182 per lost record, or well over $8.6 billion dollars! It appears that the attackers gained access through a wireless regional hub for the company's store controllers that handle the point-of-sale system.
