Wi-Fi security: FBI warns of risks of using wireless hotel networks
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Wi-Fi networks in hotels typically favor guest convenience over strong security practices, says the FBI.
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Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 27, 2020
While hotel Wi-Fi is convenient, security is not the priority, federal government says.
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CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 16, 2023
Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. It is the brains of everything — our core system.
Forrester IT
JULY 30, 2019
Why do hotel web sites fail to support business travellers' customer journeys, in both the digital and physical sense? B2B eCommerce sites should help business shoppers balance price with value, which is a nuanced combination of many factors, not a series of binary choices.
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 11, 2024
La tecnología está transformando no solo la forma en la que los hoteles operan y se relacionan con sus clientes, sino también cómo interactúan con el entorno sin mermar sus cuentas de resultados. Marta Marcos, vicepresidenta sénior de Tecnologías de la Información y Sistemas de Minor Hotels Europe & Américas.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
The hotel sector has been undergoing a digital revolution for years, transforming not only the way hotels operate and interact with their customers, but also with the environment, all without harming their bottom lines. Recognition of a digital future Minor’s growth wouldn’t have been possible without a commitment to digitalization.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 19, 2025
En Palladium Hotel Group, la estrategia de TI es un pilar clave para impulsar la competitividad y el crecimiento sostenible. Marcel Alet, CIO de Palladium Hotel Group. Palladium Hotel Group Tecnologa, pilar clave La tecnologa en el grupo Palladium es un catalizador estratgico clave , explica el CIO de la compaa.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Cybercriminals posted the information of more than 10 million customers on a hacker forum a year after the initial attack on a cloud server.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 5, 2024
With stints at Procter & Gamble, HPE and DHL, Jaime González-Peralta landed at Radisson Hotel Group four years ago as CIO for EMEA and then became global CIO in April 2020 — a particularly complex moment due to the paralysis that the pandemic inflicted on the world of travel. How many people, then, make up Radisson’s IT area worldwide?
IT Toolbox
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
According to an analysis by cyber intelligence company Hudson Rock, just over 4,000 InterContinental Hotels Group users and 15 of its 325,000 employees were compromised in the attack. The post Suspected Ransomware Attack on InterContinental Hotels Affected Over 4,000 Guests appeared first on Spiceworks.
Network World
AUGUST 14, 2016
HEI Hotels & Resorts has reported a possible compromise of payment card information at its point-of-sale terminals, the latest in a string of attacks on such systems at hotels, hospitals and retailers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
IT Toolbox
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Play ransomware added H-Hotels to its leak site and claimed to have stolen personal data, client documents, passports, and other identification. The post Play Ransomware Targets H-Hotels After City of Antwerp and Córdoba Judiciary appeared first on.
CTOvision
JULY 16, 2020
Researchers have found 142 million personal details from former guests at the MGM Resorts hotels for sale on the Dark Web, evidence that a data leak from the hotel chain […].
Information Week
MARCH 31, 2022
Advances in digital systems are making it possible to build and retrofit office buildings, datacenters, factories, and hotels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support maximum sustainability.
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
La diversidad y el volumen de sus operaciones en distintos países ha llevado al Palladium Hotel Group a buscar soluciones tecnológicas que mejoren su gestión de los datos. Para ello, ha implementado una nueva plataforma de monitorización que le permite detectar y responder a los problemas operativos de forma más rápida y eficaz.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! But what is not commonly known is that this family-owned hotel once thrived as a busy brothel during the City’s wild Barbary Coast days. Then, at 3 A.M.,
Tech Republic Security
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Magecart 5 is targeting Layer 7 routers used in airports, casinos, hotels, and resorts, and others, to steal credit card data on popular US and Chinese shopping sites.
Network World
MAY 3, 2017
Many people are not aware of this, but Wi-Fi hotspots at Starbucks, Barnes & Noble or your local hotel that offers it as a complimentary service are not safe for confidential browsing, performing financial transactions or for viewing your emails. Public Wi-Fi does not offer encryption for individuals using the same password and hotspot.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. Moreover, IHG’s cloud backbone enables it to take advantage of emerging SaaS offerings, such as Speakeasy AI conversational chatbots, and deliver its own IHG Voice Cloud AI service to help guests and reception desk clerks at hundreds of hotels.
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
operator of 28 hotel and casino properties across the US, was negotiating a fresh enterprise agreement with VMware prior to its acquisition, reported The Register. “Many are reframing how to manage infrastructure, especially as demand for AI and cloud-native innovation escalates,” Carter said.
Network World
JANUARY 29, 2017
A 4-star hotel in the Austrian Alps, the Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt , admitted to bowing to extortion after ransomware locked up the computer running the hotel’s electronic key lock system. This was not the first time that cyber thugs attacked the hotel.
GeekWire
DECEMBER 3, 2024
UW CoMotion Labs Photo) When I was searching for a hotel earlier this year for a volleyball tournament, I could easily find information on lodging prices, ratings and availability. Ken Aragon , Viata’s co-founder and CEO, said this is an essential but harder to research parameter for making a hotel choice. ” Aragon said.
Venture Beat
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Atari CEO Fred Chesnais has partnered with companies on cryptocurrencies, Atari hotels, and the VCS home console. Read More.
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Ransomware attacks Recall the ransomware hack on MGM Resorts International hotel reservation systems, digital room keys, casino gaming systems, and restaurant point-of-sale systems. Natural language processing can analyze and categorize data as it’s created or ingested, automatically applying appropriate security tags and access controls.
GeekWire
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Bill Gates’ Cascade Investment LLC is acquiring a controlling stake in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts , the company announced Wednesday. Gates and Cascade first invested in Four Seasons in 1997 when the hotel was public. The Four Seasons in Seattle. Four Seasons Photo). Cascade is purchasing half of the 47.5%
CTOvision
APRIL 2, 2020
The hotel giant said Tuesday it discovered in late February the breach of an unspecified property system at a franchise hotel. The hackers obtained the login details of two employees, a hotel statement said, and […]. million guests.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Garden City Hotel managing director Grady Colin said that if they vacuum every floor with a robot, it saves one entire shift. That translates to one person each day that can be reassigned to do other tasks or in this environment, one less employee they have to struggle to hire.
IT Toolbox
APRIL 11, 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has advised users to refrain from using free electric charging plugs at airports, bus stops, shopping centers, and hotels due to the increasing risk of juice-jackin.
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 26, 2024
Así fue como se lanzó al mercado como una plataforma tecnológica global destinada a llevar la rentabilidad de los hoteles al siguiente nivel. Su valor añadido radica precisamente en su RMS, ya que es capaz de optimizar los ingresos y la distribución de los hoteles analizando las expectativas y los hábitos de compra de los usuarios.
Venture Beat
AUGUST 4, 2021
Tilting Point will become the exclusive publisher for Hidden Hotel: Miami Mystery while the developer WhaleApp focuses on updates. Read More.
Forrester IT
APRIL 4, 2024
After countless flights and hotel check-ins, I’m pleased to share what I observed from Forrester’s roundtable events covering generative AI (genAI) in marketing, held in four cities: Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Bangalore. What an amazing two weeks it was!
Forrester IT
APRIL 16, 2024
With some 30,000 people jammed into a Las Vegas hotel and convention center, expectations were clearly high — and Google gave them plenty to consider. Google conjured a Christmas-in-July atmosphere by scheduling Google Cloud Next April 9-11, some four months earlier than usual to present its AI offerings ASAP and upstage its rivals.
GeekWire
AUGUST 27, 2020
The San Francisco-based startup, which is part hotel and part apartment-style vacation rental, is now offering units at Solis , a modern development located at 1300 E. A Sonder unit in Solis, a building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill. Sonder Photo). Sonder , a tech-enabled hospitality company, is moving into Seattle.
TechSpot
MARCH 21, 2024
Researchers recently disclosed a significant security flaw in Dormakaba's Saflok electronic RFID locks, which are popular with hotels. It could allow a hacker to clone a hotel's keycard to access any room in the building. It is unclear whether hackers are actively exploiting the vulnerability. Read Entire Article
Tech Republic Cloud
AUGUST 12, 2020
According to a new survey, 38% of IT leaders plan to increase their investment in cloud-based networking.
TechSpot
APRIL 18, 2024
Apple's AirPlay is finally available in some hotels starting today. At last year's WWDC, the company announced it was working with LG to bring the feature to hotel TVs by the end of 2023. It initially said the capability would arrive with the launch of iOS 17 last September. However, Read Entire Article
GeekWire
JULY 11, 2024
The company is targeting hotels, offices, fitness centers, hospitals, senior living facilities, veterinarians, and more. -based startup developing robotics technology for disinfection use cases, has raised $2.7 million from an investment entity associated with healthcare IT company Agadia Systems.
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 13, 2024
Mike Rawson, CIO of citizenM, is also emphasizing green IT as part of the global hotel chain’s IT strategy. The hotel chain’s sustainability efforts go beyond IT as well; it requires new hotels to meet green energy standards, and it works with partners to reduce food waste.
Network World
AUGUST 14, 2024
While rip and replace of a virtual environment would seem complex, time-consuming, and impractical, another VMware competitor says that’s happening.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 6, 2025
Before AI agents, Steinglass said, building a hotel check-in, for example, would require writing every if-then statement, accounting for every possibility and hardcoding it. The way we build with agents is fundamentally different from the way we used to build software, added Alice Steinglass, EVP and GM of Salesforce Platform.
CTOvision
JANUARY 10, 2019
More than 5 million unencrypted passport numbers were stolen as part of the Marriott data breach last year, according to an update from the hotel giant. based hotel chain revealed in an online […]. The information accessed in the breach, which was first disclosed on Nov. 30th, also includes approximately 20.3
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
SkyCity Entertainment Group Chief Information Officer Glen McLatchie on his career-defining moments, the importance of mentoring and professional development, and the transformation plans ahead for the casino and hotel group after a challenging few years. Watch this episode: CIO, CIO Leadership Live
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