July 9, 2015
By Tom Demeropolis
...The Walnut Hills-based (click here) general contractor is
building the $7.3 million hippopotamus exhibit, which will be the final
piece of the zoo’s $34 million Africa expansion. Mark Fisher,
senior director of facilities, planning and sustainability at the
Cincinnati Zoo, said the new hippo exhibit will be twice the size of the
zoo's manatee exhibit, which also required significant technology and
engineering.
“This is the most sophisticated project in the history of the Cincinnati Zoo,” he said.
The reason? Building a hippo exhibit with an underwater viewing area
comes with a unique challenge: keeping a nearly 70,000 gallon exhibit
pool clean enough for visitors to see the hippos. That’s really tough
when a single hippo can generate about 400 pound of waste per day. The
Cincinnati Zoo will have two....
The other challenge even zoos are facing is their security. Not just the gates and railings, but, computer insecurity plagues them, too. Zoos' budgets are tight the way it is, but, when money is stolen it makes management that much more an issue.
July 9, 2015
By Robert Abel
The Detroit Zoo along with eight other zoos (click here) across the country announced that Service Systems Associates (SSA), a third party vendor that handles retail and concession payments, experienced a point-of-sale (POS) breach that affected customers between March 23 and June 25 of this year.
How many victims? Unknown.
What type of personal information? Customer names, credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates, and three-digit CVV security codes.
What happened? Malware was detected on SSA software in nine zoo gift shops that compromised information of customers at the Detroit Zoo and eight other zoos across the country.
What was the response? The malware responsible for the incident was identified and removed. SSA has notified the credit card companies of the situation and is working with law enforcement and the forensic investigator firm Sikich to investigate the breach....
The other challenge even zoos are facing is their security. Not just the gates and railings, but, computer insecurity plagues them, too. Zoos' budgets are tight the way it is, but, when money is stolen it makes management that much more an issue.
July 9, 2015
By Robert Abel
The Detroit Zoo along with eight other zoos (click here) across the country announced that Service Systems Associates (SSA), a third party vendor that handles retail and concession payments, experienced a point-of-sale (POS) breach that affected customers between March 23 and June 25 of this year.
How many victims? Unknown.
What type of personal information? Customer names, credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates, and three-digit CVV security codes.
What happened? Malware was detected on SSA software in nine zoo gift shops that compromised information of customers at the Detroit Zoo and eight other zoos across the country.
What was the response? The malware responsible for the incident was identified and removed. SSA has notified the credit card companies of the situation and is working with law enforcement and the forensic investigator firm Sikich to investigate the breach....
