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Retailer Sues Visa Over $13 Million ‘Fine’ for Being Hacked | Threat Level | Wired.com # End of the road for PCI ?
Damn, I’m not sure what I think about this: A sports apparel retailer is fighting back against the arbitrary multi-million-dollar penalties that credit card companies impose on banks and merchants for data breaches by filing a first-of-its-kind $13 million lawsuit against Visa. The suit takes on the payment card industry’s powerful money-making system of punishing
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ipmi: freight train to hell #security #danfarmer
A paper on IPMI and BMC security: ipmi: freight train to hell, plain HTML or dangerous PDF (bloated director’s cut; HTML was generated from word and edited down.) – or – ipmi: express train to hell, in HTML or PDF (1 page, G-rated version.) The 2nd link is the express/single page/reader’s digest version, which has
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…and then there’s SATAN
Walshman writes: @alecmuffett and of course there’s this porcupine.org/satan/demo/doc… — Chris (@Walshman23) March 7, 2013 …and he’s quite right: Pre-release: “It’s like randomly mailing automatic rifles to 5,000 addresses. I hope some crazy teen doesn’t get a hold of one.” (Oakland tribune.) “SATAN is like a gun, and this is like handing a gun to
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Tuesday 31 December 1996: “Hacker ‘crowbar’ released on Net” # Daily Telegraph #security #crack
I sometimes wonder how far we’ve actually come: The security world in general still whinges about full-disclosure – especially when it keeps you up until 3am and/or away from your family; I believe the preponderance of tools – nessus, metasploit, nmap, sqlmap, skipfish, wpscan, … – is a message and it tells us that more
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Fair Film Choosing For Couples™ – 10 rules will lead to a lifetime of happy evenings, or your money back – Bread and Watir
I’m a huge fan of gamification. I’m also a huge fan of fairness. So when an opportunity arises to combine the two, I find myself unable to resist. Me and my better half are both self confessed cinephiles and love nothing more than finishing up a hard day with a bottle of wine and a
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Somewhere between sanity and impotence: US Gov’t realises private sector software can’t be CNI #cyber #foss
Bloomberg: Telecommunications companies want President Barack Obama’s administration to rethink a decision that may exempt Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Gmail, Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone software and Microsoft Corp.’s Windows from an executive order on cybersecurity. Obama’s Feb. 12 order says the government can’t designate “commercial information technology products or consumer information technology services” as critical U.S.
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Which Hurts More, AC or DC Electricity? #EPIC #SCIENCE #FTW
Which Hurts More, AC or DC Electricity?. HT Grim.