http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008/03/hannaford_vanis.html
Rapid7 LLC, a Boston company that makes security software to keep out intruders, has long counted Hannaford Bros. as one of its marquee customers along with Eastern Bank and the US Department of Homeland Security. But after the Maine-based supermarket chain reported a massive data breach Monday that exposed as many as 4.2 million credit and debit cards to fraud, Rapid7 abruptly stripped Hannaford's name and logo from its website. Was it damage control? Embarrassment about being linked to the breach? An admission that its software failed? A Rapid7 executive says none of the above. David Precopio, the company's vice president of marketing, said Hannaford asked Rapid7 to remove its name from the site once the data breach was made public. But after some sharp-eyed observers spotted the deletion (including the security website attrition.org) Precopio said Rapid7 asked Hannaford to let it repost the company's name. ... _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
