The poster obviously doesn't understand how credit cards word. Sure, we can do an offline transaction for whatever value we want, provided the merchant doesn't fall into any of the various restricted merchant category codes, like gambling companies and so forth.
Even then, you've got an offline authorisation for almost a million dollars... you think you've stolen a million dollars? Nope! Firstly the point of sale system must upload a file containing the authorisations it's performed. The bank takes this, and generally a night, through a process called settlement, moves the appropriate funds around. A lot of the settlement processes are still performed with ALOT of human supervision. For one company I used to work at, which processed billions in credit card payments every year, there were 3 hardy engineers, ensuring the process went off without a hitch. Catching large or fraudulent transaction happens at this stage too. Most cards have an upper transaction value also, so when submitting a file containing a value over this, the entire batch would be rejected, and an engineer would have to regenerate a new file, minus the transactions and submit. The file submitter would get an automated report of what transactions failed to settle correctly, and from there they could investigate fraud...
I've moved over to a Mikrotik RB2011 series device and I have to say I'm loving it.
Has all the features I need, and even though the hardware is 3 years old at this stage, it's still alot faster than the older WRT devices. Interface and command line are a little whacky, and hard to get used to, but once you do, you'll never go back.
http://routerboard.com/RB2011U...
I recently got a Microtik router running RouterOS, and I have to say I love it functionality at it's price point. Even supports BGP if you are that way inclined.
My DSL was annoying me, so I turned it to bridged mode, and now the new router does everything else. NAT seems faster, with pings being 3ms quicker which I was astonished at.
My other idea was an old desktop running linux, but I worked out the pricing for hardware vs electricity. And within a year (in Ireland) I am going to save money with the Microtik router. The router uses about 7W fully loaded, whereas my desktop would be churning 250 watts fully loaded...
This is my one: http://routerboard.com/RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN
Personally I have a VPS in every country I want to get content from.
I have a US VPSs, for Netflix, Pandora an whatever else. I have a UK VPS for BBC iPlayer, Channel4 and so on.
Cheap as chips generally. I think my UK one cost $30 a year!
Sell the service to my friends, and bingo I've made my money back, and I don't have to worry (too much) about some third party stealing all of my traffic
Head on over to their monthly calculator to work out how much you'll be spending with them if you decide they are right.
Would you go to do your grocery shopping and only find out how much each item you have bought is at the cashier? I think not...
One simple solution to most crapware: msconfig
Stop all the unnecessary from loading at startup!
Teach a man to fish... doesn't stop him installing crap.
PCI compliance can be a cover up, and a cover story over many troubled companies. I work at one, where I was instructed to be creative when it came to giving answers. Patching was always an annual affair, generally before the auditor came onsite.
As for external pens tests, they can be faked. At one stage we pointed the pen testers at a non-production test system, with a completely different version of software.
Thank god I am out of that sector now.
Sony are liable for costs from the Credit card companies. I was told it was $100 an exposed card number. So they could be liable for billions.
Tell me more... I'm a sysadmin who loves a challenge. What else do these guys do? I would love to read their end user license agreement. Probably says something like "WE READ YOUR EMAIL!"
Go to here and see if your ip address always changes, if it does everytime then they are proxying you in a pool of addresses, if it changes everytime you reboot your dsl modem, that's just because it's dhcp. I would be very very surprised if they proxied everything. Plus you can't proxy SSL sessions without breaking them, so things like gmail should act normally if they are doing things they aren't meant to...
What make is the DSL modem?
Why do you want an un-Nat'd setup? I only have 1 IP on a business setup. Can request up to 8 I think for about 10 euro a year. Would be handy, but port forward suffices all my torrenting needs:) I have to admit I did replace my DSL modem with a cisco one, so things are a bit easier to do the things I want:)
Even with the bad infrastructure here in Ireland, I have an uncapped connection. Obviously I can't upload much at 512kbps a second.... Bring on the SDSL!
Interesting... Such a scam, just setup a website somewhere, claim something, and then try charge for it. I wondered why there was an index3.html page, but no index2.html, turns out its another office they have! HA! http://www.medison.se/index2.html
Flush the cable... hmmm... yeah right... Has they gone and employed sewer rats now to hook up the cable?
Hmmm, are they monitoring everyone that uses this service, cause I 'cat/var/log/dump >/dev/toilet/'
I used to be cheap, and a cheap student at that. Here in Ireland we are charged through the nose for electricity. Being in college, I need my laptop and my home pc, and when I moved out, I thought two things, a) I would freeze, b) be toasty warm with no computing power bar my calculator. But choose a... I'm still here, my lovely pc kept me warm. Nearly every watt of computer power is converted to heat. Thus you get the heating and the power you need. Get a dodgy made power supply and it could be pumping out that heat all day and night long!
Will this lead to very high density and high speed TFT screens coming about? The kind that can flex, and we worn... Where am I getting with this... Invisibility cloak!
Hey hey hey, no fair! I'm a linux dweeb, and I'm not home alone! Whats more impressive setting up your girlfriends companys website (LAMP simplicity, 5 minutes work, nixer at 200 Euro an hour) or fixing some spyware install on her friends virus riddled laptop?
On the contrary, changing a few lines on a config could easily make a mail relay... an open mail relay, and unless the sysadmins are watching those logs, are see the network impact that server could be spamming millions of people daily. That or its an entry point, into a company full of interesting information. High risk, but alot of smaller companies take risks in sending data through email every day.
Is the qwerty layout actually any better? Come 10 years time when the mobile phone kids are all grown up, this won't even be a discussion. Just like qwerty efficiency is also related to how used you are to the key pad, kids of today can type at speed equalling that of most typers, so is the problem really with the layout?
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The poster obviously doesn't understand how credit cards word. Sure, we can do an offline transaction for whatever value we want, provided the merchant doesn't fall into any of the various restricted merchant category codes, like gambling companies and so forth. Even then, you've got an offline authorisation for almost a million dollars... you think you've stolen a million dollars? Nope! Firstly the point of sale system must upload a file containing the authorisations it's performed. The bank takes this, and generally a night, through a process called settlement, moves the appropriate funds around. A lot of the settlement processes are still performed with ALOT of human supervision. For one company I used to work at, which processed billions in credit card payments every year, there were 3 hardy engineers, ensuring the process went off without a hitch. Catching large or fraudulent transaction happens at this stage too. Most cards have an upper transaction value also, so when submitting a file containing a value over this, the entire batch would be rejected, and an engineer would have to regenerate a new file, minus the transactions and submit. The file submitter would get an automated report of what transactions failed to settle correctly, and from there they could investigate fraud...
I've moved over to a Mikrotik RB2011 series device and I have to say I'm loving it. Has all the features I need, and even though the hardware is 3 years old at this stage, it's still alot faster than the older WRT devices. Interface and command line are a little whacky, and hard to get used to, but once you do, you'll never go back. http://routerboard.com/RB2011U...
I recently got a Microtik router running RouterOS, and I have to say I love it functionality at it's price point. Even supports BGP if you are that way inclined. My DSL was annoying me, so I turned it to bridged mode, and now the new router does everything else. NAT seems faster, with pings being 3ms quicker which I was astonished at. My other idea was an old desktop running linux, but I worked out the pricing for hardware vs electricity. And within a year (in Ireland) I am going to save money with the Microtik router. The router uses about 7W fully loaded, whereas my desktop would be churning 250 watts fully loaded... This is my one: http://routerboard.com/RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN
Use MongoDB, it's web scale!
Personally I have a VPS in every country I want to get content from. I have a US VPSs, for Netflix, Pandora an whatever else. I have a UK VPS for BBC iPlayer, Channel4 and so on. Cheap as chips generally. I think my UK one cost $30 a year! Sell the service to my friends, and bingo I've made my money back, and I don't have to worry (too much) about some third party stealing all of my traffic
Head on over to their monthly calculator to work out how much you'll be spending with them if you decide they are right. Would you go to do your grocery shopping and only find out how much each item you have bought is at the cashier? I think not...
One simple solution to most crapware: msconfig Stop all the unnecessary from loading at startup! Teach a man to fish... doesn't stop him installing crap.
Because the hack, and Amazons S3 outage occured at about the same time!
packt loss.
PCI compliance can be a cover up, and a cover story over many troubled companies. I work at one, where I was instructed to be creative when it came to giving answers. Patching was always an annual affair, generally before the auditor came onsite. As for external pens tests, they can be faked. At one stage we pointed the pen testers at a non-production test system, with a completely different version of software. Thank god I am out of that sector now. Sony are liable for costs from the Credit card companies. I was told it was $100 an exposed card number. So they could be liable for billions.
...marketing slogan that Sun ever waisted money on... "What can we dot com for you today?"
Tell me more... I'm a sysadmin who loves a challenge. What else do these guys do? I would love to read their end user license agreement. Probably says something like "WE READ YOUR EMAIL!" Go to here and see if your ip address always changes, if it does everytime then they are proxying you in a pool of addresses, if it changes everytime you reboot your dsl modem, that's just because it's dhcp. I would be very very surprised if they proxied everything. Plus you can't proxy SSL sessions without breaking them, so things like gmail should act normally if they are doing things they aren't meant to... What make is the DSL modem?
Why do you want an un-Nat'd setup? I only have 1 IP on a business setup. Can request up to 8 I think for about 10 euro a year. Would be handy, but port forward suffices all my torrenting needs :) I have to admit I did replace my DSL modem with a cisco one, so things are a bit easier to do the things I want :)
Even with the bad infrastructure here in Ireland, I have an uncapped connection. Obviously I can't upload much at 512kbps a second.... Bring on the SDSL!
A Harvard eduction?? Some of us learn english proper!
Interesting... Such a scam, just setup a website somewhere, claim something, and then try charge for it. I wondered why there was an index3.html page, but no index2.html, turns out its another office they have! HA! http://www.medison.se/index2.html
Flush the cable... hmmm... yeah right... Has they gone and employed sewer rats now to hook up the cable? Hmmm, are they monitoring everyone that uses this service, cause I 'cat /var/log/dump > /dev/toilet/'
Google is going down the toilet?
I don't think it's going to upstage the iPhone in any category!
I used to be cheap, and a cheap student at that. Here in Ireland we are charged through the nose for electricity. Being in college, I need my laptop and my home pc, and when I moved out, I thought two things, a) I would freeze, b) be toasty warm with no computing power bar my calculator. But choose a... I'm still here, my lovely pc kept me warm. Nearly every watt of computer power is converted to heat. Thus you get the heating and the power you need. Get a dodgy made power supply and it could be pumping out that heat all day and night long!
Will this lead to very high density and high speed TFT screens coming about? The kind that can flex, and we worn... Where am I getting with this... Invisibility cloak!
Hey hey hey, no fair! I'm a linux dweeb, and I'm not home alone! Whats more impressive setting up your girlfriends companys website (LAMP simplicity, 5 minutes work, nixer at 200 Euro an hour) or fixing some spyware install on her friends virus riddled laptop?
On the contrary, changing a few lines on a config could easily make a mail relay... an open mail relay, and unless the sysadmins are watching those logs, are see the network impact that server could be spamming millions of people daily.
That or its an entry point, into a company full of interesting information. High risk, but alot of smaller companies take risks in sending data through email every day.
Is the qwerty layout actually any better? Come 10 years time when the mobile phone kids are all grown up, this won't even be a discussion. Just like qwerty efficiency is also related to how used you are to the key pad, kids of today can type at speed equalling that of most typers, so is the problem really with the layout?
Here was me thinking that batman was into cat woman, but to learn that he sleeps with the fishes , that's just wrong!