Illinois Bank: Use Cash for Chicago Taxis If you use Taxis, this is probably a good tip, period. The less greasy creeps get ahold of your card information, the better off you are. FYP
So...this is how they did it. Human error, as usual. Sounds like the hackers just got lucky in a circle of bad choices made by the security folks at Target. http://mobile.businessweek.com/arti...ed-alarms-in-epic-hack-of-credit-card-data#p1 Target turned off the automatic feature of the safety program which would have caught and eradicated it. They then didn't act on the information provided to them from the overseas office, which also caught the breach. This would be why the IT person took the fall. Ouch. Would hate to have that on my resume.
I just got £1300 removed from my credit card by someone booking a holiday through Expedia. Also on closer examination of my statements I see someone has been taking about £20 every month for at least the last six months which is is far back as my statements go. To their credit my bank quickly refunded it all but its quite worrying. I mean when you buy stuff online or hand over your card in a restaurant or wherever there really is nothing to stop the criminals.
When it's so easy for anyone to be a criminal, you're left with people's personal values and ethics to wrestle with, and we all know the majority of people will take the easy road more often than not.
sony is fucked like really fucked as in FUCKED fucked http://www.thewrap.com/sony-execs-w...cludes-stars-ids-budget-and-contract-figures/ http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/new-sony-films-pirated-in-wake-of-hack-attack-1201367036/ i am sure a whole metric fuckton more is going to be coming out will it trickle or be a dump? sooooo fucked
People (my husband, but I guess he's not alone in his thinking) have been saying that the United States' government has no place in protecting the assets of Sony or getting lured into a nuclear confrontation by this whole North Korean government versus Sony thing. To me, it will be just another instance in a long history of doing exactly what our government is expected to do: within the limits of the Constitution and law, protect the persons and property of citizens of the United States. It did so, famously, in the case of the Barbary Pirates (remember the U.S. Marines anthem? The First and Second Barbary Wars?). The seizure of American citizens and their property was a primary reason behind the founding of the United States Navy. Obviously, gunboats are not appropriate now, but our government cannot sit idly by while a foreign government destroys substantial American private property (yes, Sony is a Japanese corporation -- now -- but it's merely that Sony bought Columbia Pictures, one of the main studios in Hollywood, USA). To do so puts many other American enterprises and citizens at risk for any sort of thing that an insane foreign dictatorship might do.
FBI says it has good evidence that it was done by North Korea. There's been no request by Sony of anyone to do anything, yet. However, they did withdraw the movie from release, so NK got its way for the moment.
Sony is beyond fucked. The assholes that hacked Sony have an equally dramatic return of the favor on the way, be sure of it. Make no mistake, the federal government has been involved long before this incident, and there's pushing and shoving happening on both sides It's going to be an interesting year with the escalating cyberwarfare, and cops now being executed in public. I never like to point out when I told ya' so. I hope everyone has a solid end game plan for the impending revolution.
No the Feds just like to stick their nose in everything. Sony hasn't 'officially' asked for anything. It's a sad Fucking day when some half cocked loon can force his will on us from across the planet. Yay techology. I think we should just blow the place to shit and give Japan the leftovers, but that's why I'm not in charge of such things.
