12/07/2015
On November 20, 2015 Starwood Hotels announced that they had been infected by malware that was among other things was trying to get at their customer credit card information. Shortly after that on November 25, 2015 Hilton Hotel chain released similar information about a malware infection. Is it because of the holiday season brings more people to hotels? I don't think so. Hotels always are trying to achieve the highest occupancy rate regardless of the season. Is it an easy target? Perhaps. Regardless of the motive we have to ask ourselves "Even if we are very careful when we go online, how can we be sure the vendor we are dealing with has adequate protection?".