Casino Sues Security Firm For Failing To Contain Malware Infection (softpedia.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 17, 2016 @04:40AM from the keeping-it-cool dept.

An anonymous reader writes: US casino chain Affinity Games is suing Trustwave Holdings, a cyber-security vendor that was brought in to investigate a card breach but failed to detect and stop a malware incident on Affinity's servers, which led to the escalation of a previous card breach. The casino chain noticed the sloppy job a few months later when it hired a penetration testing company to comply with new gaming regulation. Mandiant was brought in to mop up Trustwave's job later on. Affinity is now suing for $100,000 (or more) in damages.

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It's a gamble by penguinoid · 2016-01-17 05:04 · Score: 4, Insightful

Hire the wrong security, and you might be wasting your money or even exacerbating the problem. The cheapest security is usually not the cheapest.

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1. Re:It's a gamble by gstoddart · 2016-01-17 05:05 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Hey, it's entirely possible to be expensive and incompetent.
  Lousy companies never cease to over-value their services.
  
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