It's a RAM scraper attack on the POS machines, not a database dump off the mainframe. It's hard to believe that people don't know the difference. Oh, you're too dumb/lazy to actually figure out how to log in with an account, I guess that explains it.
In the case of Target and Michaels it's the latter. You have up to 90 days to return some merchandise at Target, and the entire transaction record will be stored for that long and then dumped.
Having said that, the AC somehow seems to have completely missed every article that even dips a toe into the technical details of the attacks. It's a RAM scraper, not a database capture, that is picking up the transaction. The POS terminal only stores the transaction for the amount of time it takes to contact the credit card company and get approval, and that's all the time necessary to carry out that type of attack.
Just another symptom of the 'MBA Disease', where people too stupid or lazy to do any real work make decisions on public safety based on how it will effect the stock price and their next quarterly bonus.
A lot of businesses, especially meat processing plants, prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Mexico because if they're injured on the job rather than deal with OSHA and worker's comp they can just fire them and have La Migra ship them back to Mexico at taxpayer expense.
Good grief, you sound like some small-town businessman who thinks he can get a Pentagon contract because he "knows a bunch of people in Washington". Random paper pushers can't do shit for you, heads of governmental departments can get shit done. You're right that "most of them can't do anything for you", there's a difference between between most people and the "right people".
Ah, gee, another ignorant AC. Just a couple of months before BP had announced to the Wall Street Journal (among others) that they had found deposits of petroleum on the continental shelf bearing the Falkland Islands, and in their typical "run up the stock price with some grotesquely overblown prediction" fashion declared that the deposit could rival the North Sea fields. If you think that Thatcher ever gave a shit about anyone whose net worth was less than a million pounds then you probably weren't alive at that time, or else have a very, very selective memory.
I true, then you are fucking scum that deserves to be tied to the bottom of a drone landing wheels-up. Slime like you only make the world a worse place to live.
If you go a couple of weeks further back, an Argentinian company had a contract to salvage scrap metal from an old whaling station. When they raised an Argentinian flag over their camp the Brits declared them an invasion force and took them all prisoner. Buenas Aires predictably overreacted, London even more predictably overreacted, and it went downhill from there.
The UK government cared because British Petroleum had just found oil on the continental shelf where the Islands sit and they were the only country with experience drilling wells that far underwater and in that type of weather. Makes me chuckle that the field turned out to be unprofitable.
The bees aren't alone, I've seen plastic, ribbons, string, mylar, and cigarette butts incorporated into bird nests. Crows in fact seem to deliberately incorporate cigarette butts into their nests to exterminate pests.
Best cubicle that I've ever had was back in 1998, on the 4th floor overlooking the canal that bordered the Mercer Slough Nature Preserve. It was at a non-profit, where management tends to be generally smarter and less rigid. Saw osprey, eagles, beavers, herons, and thousands of waterfowl. It was wonderful. I still miss that window.
I work in a Security Operations Center, where pretty much everyone needs to hear what everyone else is up to in order to make sure that alarms and events are handled without duplication. There's no cell reception here (in the basement of a data center), so anyone having to make personal calls steps out of the SOC anyway. It's really the first and only time that I have ever seen an open floor plan that actually made sense. Helps that the entire team gets along really well.
I'm amazed at how much money they'll pay us in salary and then cheap out on little things that kill productivity.
My first real tech job put a $120/hr contracted DBA on an ancient piece of junk PC because they were too cheap to spend money on a workstation that was only supposed to be needed for 3 or 4 months. To make matters worse, they wouldn't cough up for a print server and had me attach the group printer to that PC and share it out. Every time someone needed to print the machine essentially locked up until the (ancient and painfully slow) printer was finished.
Had joined an established group when I moved to Florida, I believe the prior lowest level character in the party was a 7th level cleric. Needless to say, my 4th level magic user was seen by the rest of the group as more of a source of amusement than anything else. In our first game the entire party was of Evil alignment except for my Neutral/Neutral magic user. Aethelred went out of his way to save a group of brownies from being massacred by the psychopathic Chaotic/Evil 9th level fighter/thief, who in a fit of pique proceeded to use a magic missile wand on him at random intervals until he had 1 hit point left. Something random (fall?) took Aethelred to 0 hit points, at which point the rest of the party stole everything but his spell book (no spells they didn't already have) and abandoned him to bleed out.
Unbeknownst to the other players the DM let Aethelred live, nursed back to health by the grateful brownies. The next weekend there was a message waiting for the fighter/thief that some NPC they really wanted to meet had summoned him to a meeting in a nearby grove. The previous night Aethelred had used his highest-level spell, Dig, to excavate a hole and cover it with an Illusion spell. The high-level character fell in the hole and ended up immobilized by a Stinking Cloud, and Aethelred proceeded to magic missile the shit out of him. When he complained that the flames from the magic missiles should be dissipating the Stinking Cloud the DM started to agree with him, until I pointed out that hydrogen sulphide is not only flammable but explosive. The resulting damage to the character's lungs killed him, and Aethelred was treated with a lot more respect when he joined the rest of the party in the tavern with the dead fighter/thief's equipment.
If you RTFA, its renters irate about rising rents driving them out of the area as wealthy Google/Apple/etc. employees move in. Nothing to do with unions at all.
Their complaint is that the company is making it to easy to live in the area and driving up rent. They want the Google employees to have to live closer to Mountain View, so that rent in their area will drop again. Not terribly realistic, since now that the thought has been planted in people's head if Google were to discontinue providing bus service someone would create a business to provide that service anyway.
Bit of historical trivia; when the Spanish arrived in the Americas silver and gold were very close in value to each other. The conquest of Mexico and Peru flooded the market with so much silver that the price dropped to 1/10th that of gold. There are altars in churches in Lima and Cusco (and probably in Mexico) made of half a ton of solid silver.
Reading comprehension fail, or did I just not write clearly? Portuguese and Venetian merchant houses traded with Timbuktu through its ports on the Gulf of Guinea. Maps of unknown origin existed in Europe, some of them claimed by authorities like Gerard Mercator to originate from the Great Library of Alexandria. Some of the merchant houses were enormously wealthy. It would be surprising if the merchant houses hadn't sent some of their ships on voyages of exploration using those maps in the search for new trading routes and rare goods.
It's written on vellum, which is generally made from calfskin. Cattle of course didn't exist in the Americas prior to the arrival of the Spanish barbarians, so the book's materials have to have originated in Europe. I believe the inks are also of European origin. My guess is that a native of the Americas or a European who had lived for an extended time there was probably the books author, and inaccuracies in plant representations can be attributable in part to working from memory.
Interesting. It was not common in the Americas until the European arrival, when it became one of the great scourges (along with influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis), so I always assumed it was imported. Maybe it just became widespread by the Spanish soldiers' habit of raping everything with two feet.
There were maps of large sections of the coastline of the Americas extant in Europe and China well before the time of Columbus, including a globe (IIRC, from 1492) that showed the west coast of Mexico with Baja California and possibly San Francisco Bay. Interestingly many of the maps were accurate to within a degree or two of longitude. Magellan claimed to have a map showing the straight that bears his name, seemed to know that Tierra del Fuego was an island, and encountered a large shipwreck as he passed through the Straight (no known European voyages of discovery had disappeared anywhere further south than the mouths of the Amazon).
Some of the merchant houses were richer than many of the kingdoms of the time, and not burdened with the expense of continual warfare. Timbuktu possessed an enormous library, some of it supposedly salvaged from the Great Library of Alexandria, and was a trading partner of both Portugal and Venice although it had no sailing fleet of its own. It would actually be surprising if they hadn't carried out their own voyages of exploration.
No contamination source has been found so far. Cocaine is not a popular drug among tomb excavators to my knowledge, and smuggling drugs in cadavers is normally only done with fresh corpses. In order for nicotine to have contaminated the inner tissues the mummies would have to have been stored in a humidor for a couple of years, and one would think the stench would be noticeable. The "serious criticism" so far seems to have its roots in the whole "ancient peoples were primitive semi-savages" bigotry.
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It's a RAM scraper attack on the POS machines, not a database dump off the mainframe. It's hard to believe that people don't know the difference. Oh, you're too dumb/lazy to actually figure out how to log in with an account, I guess that explains it.
In the case of Target and Michaels it's the latter. You have up to 90 days to return some merchandise at Target, and the entire transaction record will be stored for that long and then dumped.
Having said that, the AC somehow seems to have completely missed every article that even dips a toe into the technical details of the attacks. It's a RAM scraper, not a database capture, that is picking up the transaction. The POS terminal only stores the transaction for the amount of time it takes to contact the credit card company and get approval, and that's all the time necessary to carry out that type of attack.
how else do you explain such a glaring error:?
Just another symptom of the 'MBA Disease', where people too stupid or lazy to do any real work make decisions on public safety based on how it will effect the stock price and their next quarterly bonus.
About $10 an hour . . .
A lot of businesses, especially meat processing plants, prefer to hire illegal immigrants from Mexico because if they're injured on the job rather than deal with OSHA and worker's comp they can just fire them and have La Migra ship them back to Mexico at taxpayer expense.
Good grief, you sound like some small-town businessman who thinks he can get a Pentagon contract because he "knows a bunch of people in Washington". Random paper pushers can't do shit for you, heads of governmental departments can get shit done. You're right that "most of them can't do anything for you", there's a difference between between most people and the "right people".
Ah, gee, another ignorant AC. Just a couple of months before BP had announced to the Wall Street Journal (among others) that they had found deposits of petroleum on the continental shelf bearing the Falkland Islands, and in their typical "run up the stock price with some grotesquely overblown prediction" fashion declared that the deposit could rival the North Sea fields. If you think that Thatcher ever gave a shit about anyone whose net worth was less than a million pounds then you probably weren't alive at that time, or else have a very, very selective memory.
Yes, I am a drone pilot.
I true, then you are fucking scum that deserves to be tied to the bottom of a drone landing wheels-up. Slime like you only make the world a worse place to live.
If you go a couple of weeks further back, an Argentinian company had a contract to salvage scrap metal from an old whaling station. When they raised an Argentinian flag over their camp the Brits declared them an invasion force and took them all prisoner. Buenas Aires predictably overreacted, London even more predictably overreacted, and it went downhill from there.
The UK government cared because British Petroleum had just found oil on the continental shelf where the Islands sit and they were the only country with experience drilling wells that far underwater and in that type of weather. Makes me chuckle that the field turned out to be unprofitable.
The bees aren't alone, I've seen plastic, ribbons, string, mylar, and cigarette butts incorporated into bird nests. Crows in fact seem to deliberately incorporate cigarette butts into their nests to exterminate pests.
Best cubicle that I've ever had was back in 1998, on the 4th floor overlooking the canal that bordered the Mercer Slough Nature Preserve. It was at a non-profit, where management tends to be generally smarter and less rigid. Saw osprey, eagles, beavers, herons, and thousands of waterfowl. It was wonderful. I still miss that window.
I work in a Security Operations Center, where pretty much everyone needs to hear what everyone else is up to in order to make sure that alarms and events are handled without duplication. There's no cell reception here (in the basement of a data center), so anyone having to make personal calls steps out of the SOC anyway. It's really the first and only time that I have ever seen an open floor plan that actually made sense. Helps that the entire team gets along really well.
I'm amazed at how much money they'll pay us in salary and then cheap out on little things that kill productivity.
My first real tech job put a $120/hr contracted DBA on an ancient piece of junk PC because they were too cheap to spend money on a workstation that was only supposed to be needed for 3 or 4 months. To make matters worse, they wouldn't cough up for a print server and had me attach the group printer to that PC and share it out. Every time someone needed to print the machine essentially locked up until the (ancient and painfully slow) printer was finished.
Had joined an established group when I moved to Florida, I believe the prior lowest level character in the party was a 7th level cleric. Needless to say, my 4th level magic user was seen by the rest of the group as more of a source of amusement than anything else. In our first game the entire party was of Evil alignment except for my Neutral/Neutral magic user. Aethelred went out of his way to save a group of brownies from being massacred by the psychopathic Chaotic/Evil 9th level fighter/thief, who in a fit of pique proceeded to use a magic missile wand on him at random intervals until he had 1 hit point left. Something random (fall?) took Aethelred to 0 hit points, at which point the rest of the party stole everything but his spell book (no spells they didn't already have) and abandoned him to bleed out.
Unbeknownst to the other players the DM let Aethelred live, nursed back to health by the grateful brownies. The next weekend there was a message waiting for the fighter/thief that some NPC they really wanted to meet had summoned him to a meeting in a nearby grove. The previous night Aethelred had used his highest-level spell, Dig, to excavate a hole and cover it with an Illusion spell. The high-level character fell in the hole and ended up immobilized by a Stinking Cloud, and Aethelred proceeded to magic missile the shit out of him. When he complained that the flames from the magic missiles should be dissipating the Stinking Cloud the DM started to agree with him, until I pointed out that hydrogen sulphide is not only flammable but explosive. The resulting damage to the character's lungs killed him, and Aethelred was treated with a lot more respect when he joined the rest of the party in the tavern with the dead fighter/thief's equipment.
If you RTFA, its renters irate about rising rents driving them out of the area as wealthy Google/Apple/etc. employees move in. Nothing to do with unions at all.
Their complaint is that the company is making it to easy to live in the area and driving up rent. They want the Google employees to have to live closer to Mountain View, so that rent in their area will drop again. Not terribly realistic, since now that the thought has been planted in people's head if Google were to discontinue providing bus service someone would create a business to provide that service anyway.
Yes, I've noticed that protesters never seem to picket the homes of generals.
So now we know what that 'Mission Accomplished' banner really was about.
Intelligent people tend to abandon farms and rural areas and move to the cities, where there is more intellectual stimulation.
Bit of historical trivia; when the Spanish arrived in the Americas silver and gold were very close in value to each other. The conquest of Mexico and Peru flooded the market with so much silver that the price dropped to 1/10th that of gold. There are altars in churches in Lima and Cusco (and probably in Mexico) made of half a ton of solid silver.
Reading comprehension fail, or did I just not write clearly? Portuguese and Venetian merchant houses traded with Timbuktu through its ports on the Gulf of Guinea. Maps of unknown origin existed in Europe, some of them claimed by authorities like Gerard Mercator to originate from the Great Library of Alexandria. Some of the merchant houses were enormously wealthy. It would be surprising if the merchant houses hadn't sent some of their ships on voyages of exploration using those maps in the search for new trading routes and rare goods.
Is that clearer?
It's written on vellum, which is generally made from calfskin. Cattle of course didn't exist in the Americas prior to the arrival of the Spanish barbarians, so the book's materials have to have originated in Europe. I believe the inks are also of European origin. My guess is that a native of the Americas or a European who had lived for an extended time there was probably the books author, and inaccuracies in plant representations can be attributable in part to working from memory.
Interesting. It was not common in the Americas until the European arrival, when it became one of the great scourges (along with influenza, smallpox and tuberculosis), so I always assumed it was imported. Maybe it just became widespread by the Spanish soldiers' habit of raping everything with two feet.
There were maps of large sections of the coastline of the Americas extant in Europe and China well before the time of Columbus, including a globe (IIRC, from 1492) that showed the west coast of Mexico with Baja California and possibly San Francisco Bay. Interestingly many of the maps were accurate to within a degree or two of longitude. Magellan claimed to have a map showing the straight that bears his name, seemed to know that Tierra del Fuego was an island, and encountered a large shipwreck as he passed through the Straight (no known European voyages of discovery had disappeared anywhere further south than the mouths of the Amazon).
Some of the merchant houses were richer than many of the kingdoms of the time, and not burdened with the expense of continual warfare. Timbuktu possessed an enormous library, some of it supposedly salvaged from the Great Library of Alexandria, and was a trading partner of both Portugal and Venice although it had no sailing fleet of its own. It would actually be surprising if they hadn't carried out their own voyages of exploration.
No contamination source has been found so far. Cocaine is not a popular drug among tomb excavators to my knowledge, and smuggling drugs in cadavers is normally only done with fresh corpses. In order for nicotine to have contaminated the inner tissues the mummies would have to have been stored in a humidor for a couple of years, and one would think the stench would be noticeable. The "serious criticism" so far seems to have its roots in the whole "ancient peoples were primitive semi-savages" bigotry.