Report: Target Bosses Ignored IT Alert Of Impending Breach
Credit: JReed
March 15, 2014

Via slashdot:

A Target Corp. security team in Bangalore, India alerted company officials Nov. 30 of a possible infection and data breach… a warning to which Target management failed to respond, according to new reports.

Using a $1.6 million malware-detection system designed and installed by security firm FireEye, Inc. six months before, a Target security team set up in Bangalore to provide around-the-clock monitoring of Target’s digital security spotted signs of malware that had penetrated Target systems but was not yet active, according to a March 13 report from Bloomberg Businessweek that represents th...

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