Cyber-Attack

Cyber-attacks have made millions of consumers of American victims, simply at their favorite store by shopping, by doing an online banking or package shipping. In frequency data breaches are increasing, as well as the credit card information of more people has used maliciously. As we take the target organization. While this organization is the 2^nd largest US retail discount chain, in December 2013, target was the victim of large-scale cyber-attack. Between November 27 and December 70 million data from 110 million customers was hijacked including personal data of 70 million customer and 40 million banking data. But this was not recognized by the organization Target. The secret services of America have detected this crime by the abnormal activity in bank as well as warned the brand. In Eastern Europe the hacker group was located, according to the security services of US (Finkle & Skariachan, 2013).

To read information from the credit card terminals it had installed malware in cash registers. This technique is called the RAM scraping. On the black market the attackers resold, once the data has been hijacked. For state investigations into the attack as a settlement to pay over 18 million dollars target was ultimately required. As the target company take two years to come back its financial state or build the trust of their customer. When the story is unfolded it is clear that 11 gigabytes of data containing the names, addresses of mailing, contact numbers as well as for up to 70 million people payment card information. For the retailer and many of its peers the following 12 months were tumultuous.

The data security as well as the payment system is weak. Because of this incident first time in the history the CEO of the target company got fired. The target company after that takes several actions to repair as well as improve the security. A new senior leadership with cyber security knowledge brought by the retailer. EMV-compliant the retailer also rolled out POS terminals in all of its nationwide stores (Vijayan, 2014).

Yes, this RAM scarping can be used for mal-intent on transaction process System. This   TPS can be considered as an information processing system, and that can be used for business transactions that can be collection, modification and for all data transaction.  The information that is placed in the credit card so if there is business transection, they can easily hack this transection through this technology and the information will be saved and can be encrypted again.

References of Cyber-Attack

Finkle, J., & Skariachan, D. (2013, December 9). Target cyber breach hits 40 million payment cards at holiday peak. Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-target-breach/target-cyber-breach-hits-40-million-payment-cards-at-holiday-peak-idUSBRE9BH1GX20131219

Vijayan, J. (2014, februraury 6). arget breach happened because of a basic network segmentation error. Retrieved from https://www.computerworld.com/author/Jaikumar-Vijayan/