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Britain's Dixons Carphone Discovers Data Breach Affecting 5.9 Million Payment Cards (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson shares a report from BetaNews: Another week, another cyberattack. This time around, it's the Dixons Carphone group which says it has fallen victim to not one but two major breaches. The bank card details of 5.9 million customers have been accessed by hackers in the first breach. In the second, the personal records of 1.2 million people have been exposed. Dixons Carphone says that it is investigating an attack on its card processing system at Currys PC World and Dixons Travel in which there was an attempt to compromise 5.9 million cards. The company stressed that the vast majority -- 5.8 million -- of these cards were protected by chip and PIN, and that the data accessed did not include PINS, CVVs or any other authentication data that could be used to make payments or identify the card owners. The report goes on to mention that 105,000 non-EU issued payment cards, which were not chip and PIN protected, were also affected. The company says it will be contacting those customers affected by the breaches.
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Dixons is a pretty mediocre retailer and I would not be surprised is they had severely under-resourced security in place. Frankly, something like this should be enough to take them to bankruptcy.
It is time to change the responsibility from the victims to the people who allow fraudulent charges. If I don't authorize a charge, then it shouldn't be allowed.
Yes, this will make online transactions more difficult. There is a line between Security and usability that needs to involve more than reading a bunch of numbers off a card.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
do the ENGLISH still use car phones?
probably when they're in the back seat putting the mustard on their sandwich.
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At It Again Already. Time To Impeach Trump And Put Putin Posthumous.
You're the best, APK. We need more like you around here.
You are welcome on my lawn.
A small Island nation of only 65 million people, and transitioning out of the EU. Without an empire I don't really see how what goes in the UK is really relevant to the world stage.
Britain's chief export are panel shows padded with masturbation jokes. If you want to know what a panel show is, it is a xenophobic version of Hollywood Squares.
You post that shit in any thread you think you might be able to get away with it in. Just like you make posts pretending to support yourself. Maybe you should stop spamming, stalking people, and threatening people if you are so concerned about your image. Here is a hint no one wants to be you, no one envies you, and most dearly hope that the men in white jackets pick you up for the treatment you desperately need.
Downloading your hosts engine IS right now. We may not always agree, but you seem alright to me.
You are welcome on my lawn.
up to $50 in the usa but most cards cover that anyways
Dear Jealous JOWIE my unidentifiable anonymous 'courageous' (not) stalker (projecting what YOU do & that you WISH you were me):
I get away w/ ANYTHING I want to do & you + "your kind" are powerless vs. me.
(You FAKE NAME do-nothing "ne'er-do-wells" are POWERLESS vs. me as I get you to RUN DRY of your PUNY effete 'weapon' the ABUSED downmod, lol - & you KNOW it)
YOU "InFeRiOr OnEz" wannabes are NOT in my league - You are WASTE OF LIFE & LAZY do nothings, lol!
* TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN ON /. - & you know it, show it & PROVE it, lol - projectionist that YOU are, inferior one.
(I always make YOU look like the PUNY FOOL you are... & you HELP ME TO DO IT, lmao!)
APK
P.S.=> I am TRULY, @ once, the IMMOVABLE object & IRRESISTABLE force (& it pisses you off, clearly - then QUIT STALKING ME you f'd up JEALOUS little PSYCHO weezil)... apk
See subject: Pure truth (they can't help but HAVE to give it away gratis in fact) & when my Win7 64-bit install media bit it after 10 yrs. here I am on Linux - loving it in fact.
* Linux is FINALLY where I told an MS mgt. guy (Foredecker who used to post here) it would be & it would OVERTAKE Windows as catchup ball & imitation = EASY vs. being "king of the mountain" & an INNOVATING leader - MS has SERIOUSLY "dropped the ball" on Win10... bigtime!
APK
P.S.=> I spent 27++ yrs. on MS products (before that IBM & DEC products in System 34/36/38 & OS/400 + VAX respectively) from DOS, then Win3x., into the NT 3.5/3.51 builds, then briefly on Win9x, into 2000/XP/Server 2003 into 7 - no Win10 for me - I tried Linux in 1004 (slackware 1.02) - bad range of hardware support, left it. Then 1999 on Redhat (better but still short on hardware + software), then in 2010 when in Europe I said
"She's getting there" on Kubuntu 10.10 but NOW on Kubuntu 18.04? I AM A PENGUIN (@ last) & FreePascal + Lazarus 1.82 ROCK!... apk
See my subject: I only post where hosts files help (or IF "ne'er-do-well" JEALOUS JOWIEs bring it up as u have & can't do better yourself).
* I don't believe they apply here - do they?
(Correct me IF I'm off/wrong though)
APK
P.S.=> LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC & Happy B-Day to our GOOD PRESIDENT Donald Trump (tomorrow's his birthday iirc)... apk
See subject: Still, your wish isn't granted & I'm TRULY "1 of a kind" UNIQUE around here (other than 2-3 others like John Carmack, animats & even to a far lesser extent, raymorris (he's at least helped on OpenSORES & Linux once)).
1 of a kind - as my hosts engine IS on Linux (no other GUI ones I've ever seen & I doubt, like 15 other "imitations" that showed up AFTER mine on Windows, they DO as much making sure a hosts file is completely ALL BUSINESS LEAN & MEAN perfect on many levels - not tty term JUNK nobody really wants to use (or why does X/Wayland, Gnome, KDE & xfce exist?)).
* I'm SO unique "poor imitations = sincerest form of FLATTERY" (as one of you IMPERSONATED me which I addressed https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12229650&cid=56779052/)
APK
P.S.=> You're letting your fellow SOROS FANS down - your "FULLTIME ANTI-HERO IMAGE" fails if you give me props you know, lol - in YOUR case? Satan TURNS to Christ 2nd time I know of... apk
See subject (that's my estimation of my skillset in coding, nothing more, except this time on Linux I got it done BETTER than the Win64 one by far - just time & rethinking the design on several levels & I got lucky, it worked out).
* Enjoy it & ENJOY a faster, safer, more reliable overall internet + even a BIT more anonymity from it.
APK
P.S.=> I think you're pretty ok too - just that you believe in what you're doing/up to is all (there we are opposites)... apk
"I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK" by 110010001000 October 27 2017 & I'm no genius technically per IQ tests (between 130-140 on ones I've taken) but hosts do FAR MORE for FAR LESS + NATIVELY vs. ANY single other "so-called BLOATED REDUNDANT BUG-RIDDEN INEFFICIENT 'competitor'" that use "Bolt-on-'MoAr'" ILLOGIC-LOGIC vs. native kernelmode speed/efficiency of the IP stack itself (as hosts are just a filter built-in to it since 1973 iirc)!
* A regular TONY STARK "Arc Reactor" & quoting Howard Stark his father?
"It's STRONGER THAN STEEL & a 3rd the weight"
In a real sense hosts ARE exactly that Mr. STANE!
APK
P.S.=> By the way - thanks for that quote from you on that date... apk