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Epsilon Breach Used Four-month-old Attack
schliz writes "Marketing giant Epsilon knew that it was vulnerable to an attack for 'some months' before suffering a high-profile breach last week. According to Epsilon's technology partner ReturnPath, the breach was part of a series of socially engineered attacks discovered in November."
Arguably, their management team should be given a life-sentence of manually deleting penis-pill spam using the 'Incredimail' client on a virus-riddled WinME box with inadequate RAM and AOL dialup.
The rest of the company can be sold for scrap, and their mailing lists tossed into the nearest smelter.
Epsilon has always been vulnerable to attack by some smaller value of x.
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A got a bunch of those too. Some of them asked me to click on links and give them my username and password too, so they could scan my system and make sure I was okay. I did this immediately of course, as I value my personal security greatly.
On an related note, has anyone else noticed that Bank of America has relocated to Russia? Kind of ironic, don't you think? And they really needed to do better proofreading on their website.
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