What these retailers need is encryption capability embedded in the card scanner devices. This is so obvious, I'm sure it's already an option. The further upstream data is encrypted, then...

Home Depot's corporate and IT headquarters are based here in Atlanta. I almost took a job offer...

Solomon Kane, because the character isn't that common at conventions and parties, and on some level I self identify with him.

http://www.comicvine.com/solomon-kane/4005-16222/

dbishop (10/30/2014)

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Yes they are, or are browsing as part of their job. Like when I go into a Best Buy and tell them I can buy product X on Amazon...

GoofyGuy (10/30/2014)

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Imagine having 100 former "script kiddies" all tethered together along a stretch of highway in the New Mexico desert, digging ditches for fibre optic cable. Let them do that...

Miles Neale (10/30/2014)

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Begin Rant!

I guess I have a different take on this. We appear to be operating under a broken understanding of crime and punishment. We look at...

If we can define what exactly it means to be "hacked", then we can successfully guard against it and detect it...

Robert.Sterbal (10/30/2014)

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While most illicit drug users are otherwise law abiding citizen's there is ample evidence that taking illegal drugs increase your risk of financial criminal activity since the dealers don't...

The impression I get is that most of these hacks targeting big retailers are actually not database penetrations. Malware gets installed on the Point Of Sale terminals, which then skims...

salvatore.contino (10/27/2014)

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Maybe its a fear of heights or itchy toes or perhaps, "step on a crack and break your mother's back" paranoia, but I NEVER EVER would trust software to...

salvatore.contino (10/27/2014)

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I respond to the gentleman that favored WinDiff as the ubiquitous do it right, and do it every time thing. I agree with him save one...

The following can be used to identify what objects are currently consuming space in tempdb (the name of each temp table and it's size) and what sessions are allocating the...

So, who here thinks the move to 3rd party hosted database services will eventually make the position of SYSADMIN a toaster? :unsure:

By "toaster", I'm assuming we mean a piece of very vertical software that performs a common function, is based on publicly available source code, can be easily duplicated, and leaves...

Not only is there a high frequency of events, but there's also a number of new presentations to build. It seems I have 3-4 (at least) new talks to assemble,...