City of Seattle pays for friendly hacking to reveal credit card system security issues

A new report released by the Office of the City Auditor shows that test found 25 vulnerabilities. Some of them were deemed high-risk, indicating “significant security issues.”

“The test found there were definitely some areas we should focus on pretty quickly, and we did that,” City of Seattle Chief Technology Officer Michael Mattmiller said.

The simulated attack, called a penetration test, was done by Coalfire Labs for $72,093.

Mattmiller said once the city received the findings, it  For the full article click here 

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