No corporate entity or institution – no matter how pure of heart – is immune from cyberattacks. When it comes to wreaking havoc or scamming money, cyber bandits are equal-opportunity thugs: if the cash or cause is right, they’ll go after anybody or anything. Or ask these restaurant chains – Wendy’s, Noodles, and CiCi’s Pizza – which have been thwarted by recent breaches of customer payment information, malware contamination, and point-of-purchase hacking. Or the Hyatt chain, which revealed a year ago that malware had corrupted the customer credit card systems at 250 hotels. Cyberattacks are not just getting more pervasive, malevolent, and destructive – they’re threatening the foundations of our economy and democracy.

Source: Forbes August 09, 2017 20:15 UTC