Amerimar Enterprises and Abrams Capital have acquired 401 North Broad Street, the major data center and carrier hotel in Philadelphia, and will partner with telecom industry veteran Hunter Newby to operate the property. MORE

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. The compromise may have possibly affected the personal information of some hotel customers who made payment card purchases at point-of-sale terminals, such as food and beverage outlets, at certain HEI managed properties. MORE

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Trump Hotel Collection has arrived at a settlement with New York Attorney General Eric T. The hotel chain, one of the businesses of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, has agreed to pay US$50,000 in penalties and promised to take measures to beef up its data security practices, according to the attorney general’s office. The chain is one of many hotels and retailers that have been hit recently by malware that skimmed payment card information. MORE

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Hotel group InterContinental (IHG) reveals that malware attempting to glean payment card details sat undetected on its network in the US for three months MORE

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. During one of the attacks, the hackers reportedly left a backdoor into the system. The third attack occurred during the opening weekend of the winter season. MORE

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Guests who stayed at any Prince Hotel location from May to August 2017 could be affected, specifically those who booked rooms through the company’s foreign language website. The post Hotel hackers hijack data of 124K customers appeared first on IT Manager Daily. Business travel may have just gotten a bit more complicated. Hackers exploited a flaw in a FastBooking server to plant malware and steal personal information from 124,963 customers. MORE

Omni Hotels & Resorts has reported that point-of-sale systems at some of its properties were hit by malware targeting payment card information. The attack on the systems of the luxury hotel chain follows similar breaches of point-of-sale systems at various hotels and retailers like Hyatt Hotels, Target, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and Hilton Worldwide Holdings. MORE

Luxury Hotel Line Adopts Dynamics CRM. Jumeirah is a luxury hotel company with 23 hotels throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. The group’s portfolio includes the Jumeirah Emirates Towers and Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai, as well as the Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi. Jumeirah has hotels in the Maldives, in Shanghai, Frankfurt, Istanbul, and MORE

Kimpton Hotels, operator of boutique hotels across the U.S., If confirmed, it would become the latest in a string of successful attacks on hotel chain operators in the last year. is investigating reports of a possible payment card data breach. The San Francisco-based company said it was "recently made aware of a report of unauthorized charges occurring on cards that were previously used legitimately at Kimpton properties." MORE

Frost & Sullivan recently predicted that, “…every person globally will be impacted by IoT; its emergence will disrupt traditional business models across every industry.” ” Thanks to IP-based communications and the adoption of mobile VoIP technologies, we are more connected than ever. Now we are being connected to our devices and appliances – from smart TVs, to our connected MORE

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Hotel chain has enlisted London mobility startup GoInStore to offer visitors to its website virtual facility tours MORE

Wynn Las Vegas is deploying Amazon Echo in its guest rooms. Initial features will include lighting and temperature control and eventually personal concierge functions will be added MORE

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The first hotel to be completely run by robots opened Friday, July 17th in Japan. The Weird Hotel in Japan where the front desk is staffed by ROBOTS opens (dailymail.co.uk). Japanese equips hotel with dinobots to greet foreigners (vr-zone.com). MORE

In addition, this week it is launching a specialist VoIP division for the hotel industry, Phonesuite DIRECT. PhoneSuite, which specializes in telecoms solutions for the US hospitality industry, has introduced a new VoIP PBX offering, Managed VOICE. PhoneSuite DIRECT will target hoteliers looking to buy and install VoIP platforms on a factory-direct basis, offering its clients MORE

In cryptography, the "man in the middle" is usually an attacker -- but when Keezel wants to get between you and the Wi-Fi connection in your hotel or your home, it's for your own good. One problem Keezel aims to solve is that hotel and other public Wi-Fi services are often unencrypted, leaving your data wide open to eavesdropping by others in the area. MORE

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Amerimar Enterprises has acquired a data center hub in Chicago, and will own and operate it along with telecom industry veteran Hunter Newby, but this is only the beginning Read More. Chicago Connectivity Featured MORE

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InterContinental Hotel Group’s European marketing manager, Charlie Aspey, tells Computer Weekly how the firm has deployed dynamic email marketing across all its hotel brands MORE

Beach resort completes major project to revamp its wireless infrastructure with TP-Link technologies MORE

Millions of point-of-sale systems and hotel room locks can be hacked by temporarily placing a small, inexpensive device several inches away from their card readers. The device, due to be presented Sunday at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, is the creation of Weston Hecker, a senior security engineer at Rapid7. It was inspired by MagSpoof, another device created last year by security researcher Samy Kamkar. MORE

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A Slack group and a workshop day helped Trivago deploy Dropbox for Business to 1300 users MORE

Ongoing data breaches through point of sale malware highlights the need for security standards and central support for franchisees in the hotel industry, say security experts MORE

By Bob Gourley DC seems to have a cyber security related event every week. No kidding. You have to pick and chose and only go to the best or you will never get any work done. How do you pick the right events? MORE

A Russian cyber espionage group is targeting hotel Wi-Fi networks to carry out malware infections and potentially steal credentials, researchers warn MORE

Hotel group implements centralised security management to proactively protect endpoints and achieve accurate security information MORE

The many moving parts of hotels and resorts must work in sync every day to ensure that the business operates at its optimum level. In the hospitality industry, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a vital tool for ensuring the best possible experience for guests. The hospitality industry has a specific focus: Offer guests the best services possible. This task can be complicated MORE

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