#1
After working in IT for 20 years it is still surprising that major companies with sensitive data don't take the basic steps needed to secure things.
Most of the AARs of breaches come from not doing upgrades, sloppy design and outright negligence of the IT staff and management. In cases like this, these companies need to be sued into bankruptcy and driven out of business. Data is so valuable nowdays and it going into the wrong hands can fuck up the average person's life in an instant.
Think of it as binary gold and treat it as such, you fucking idiots. Maybe other dipshits will learn from your mistakes.
#3
Sink this incompetent dinosaur of a corporation with a MOACAS.
Mother Of All Class Action Suits,
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I went to the Equifax webpage dedicated to this subject. As of last night, 200,000+ individuals are known to be affected as the result of a forensic investigation nearing completion; all those affected will be emailed information, then provided the usual protections for those who have been hacked. Additionally, the FBI, etc. have been informed, and are presumably doing what they do.
I have not yet received an email.
Very stupid and dangerous, yes, but the headline is maximalist possibility on this thing.
#5
"Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers."
But, of course, it was a coincidence as they had no knowledge of the breach....right
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And right before they announce the brdach and the stock drops 20 points. Looks like this woud fall under insider trading somehow.
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So importing cheap foreign nationals to write your software really paid off eh American anti-American globalist leftist CEO pigs. Hows this paying off for you now? Lock em up.
#9
Equifax learned of the hack July 28th. So, they didn't tell anybody (*wink*) til NOW, AND to sign up for their free credit watch you have to sign away your right to sue them. I don't think that will fly
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Government and private corporations are going to keep collecting information about us, and they will never be 100% proof against breaches like this. Already 10 years ago you could get anyone's SSN online. The situation hasn't improved, and it isn't going to improve. After all, since when is government or a large corporation an exemplar of competence?
I'd like to see Congress make it illegal to use a SSN for any non-government purpose. The credit bureaus, health providers, employers and everyone else can come up with their own unique identifiers. This provides at least 2 immediate benefits - a breach means your ID is blown with one provider, not all of them. Also, any private identifier can be changed, whereas changing an SSN is nearly impossible.
Perfect? No. Better than the status quo? Absolutely.
#11
Iblis. That is the process some of the better credit card processing companies use. Your encripted card info goes to them during the initial part of a purchase only. After that a system assigned number is assigned and referenced until the transaction process is completed.
#12
When I was a young man and got a car loan or the like the banks would like to see assets (yours or others) sufficient to cover.
So a couple of titles copied and you had the loan.
This whole credit rating and listing all your debts and assets that Equifax, Transunion and the rest have been tracking is BS!
A potential creditor has no right to the knowledge of assets you don't wish to secure a loan with!
Plainly put: "It is none of their damn business!"
Also, when I was young, if you were in a business that handled peoples money or asset information you and your firm were required to be bonded for all possible damages.
Are Equifax, TransUnion and Experian bonded?
I kind of doubt it as bonding for 800,000,000 individuals per year would likely cost 2 trillion $ or more for an Internet based business like their with minimal bonding.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Hurricane Irma has left Barbuda and Antigua devastated. Prime Minister Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda revealed to ABS TV/Radio Antigua that “Barbuda is literally rubble.”
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No wonder I've stopped reading Gateway Pundit - I wrote about 1/2 of this comment in the time it took that page to load. Chock full of bullshit script code and crappy ads.
#6
As I've said before, why do we care at all why some Hollyweird celebrity says? Other than that they are on average more attractive than the typical Wal-Mart shopper,their only useful talent is pretending to be someone else.
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...well, today's actors and actresses. In earlier times, they were indeed a different breed.
#1
Excessive detail and command climate will never gain proficiency.
Nor Article 92'ers running the shop.
LAZY, Worthless - Breakfast club references here for any command blind.
Prayers needed more than Ever.
"The message is clear. If the US Navy wants to repair the damage it has done by closing it Surface Warfare School, scaling back ship simulator training, pushing crews to do more with less, and allowing Aviators and Administrators to manipulate policy for vessel operations… then it needs to put someone with ship driving experience in charge, someone with the rank and authority to make sweeping change. That person needs a mandate to listen to, empower and advocate for the men standing by the helm of our Navy AND Merchant ships without bureaucratic and budgetary entanglements. That person is Admiral Davidson and we hope he has the support of his peers."
They employed a pipe dream and some are still in charge of it.
Baba Tim nailed it.
I AM watching a forever loss of Peacetime Troops lost in BULLSHIT. And have been since the Congress decided they could make the Military not buy paintings before the Troops Ammo.
No experts- elaborately expensive systems, overtaxed MAINT Crews, Lack of parts or Logistical RFI. This is as if it was designed to fail and This is the last fucking straw .
This piece of shit Senate and Every Democrat needs a Primary out of American Lives.
You are all buddy fuckers and fuck you all.
This shit list is endless now.
I wanted Irma to hit Washington DC Six Months ago when I thought about this Six Months ago.
[Dhaka Tribune] Eleven cops and Ansar members, including the officer-in-charge (OC) of Khulna’s Khalishpur cop shoppe, have been sued on the charge of damaging both eyes of a man while torturing him in their custody.
Renu Begum, the wife of the victim, Shahjalal, filed the complaint with the court of the chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) on Thursday, accusing nine police personnel, two Ansar members and two residents of Khulna city, and naming 10 witnesses to the incident.
The accused are OC Nasim Khan, Sub-Inspector (SI) Russel, SI Tapash Ray, SI Morselim Mollah, SI Mizan, SI Mamun, SI Noor Islam, SI Syed Saheb Ali, Ansar Sepoy Afsar Ali, Ansar Lance Naik Rezaul, Suma Akhter, a resident of Old Jessore Road, and Russel, a resident of Shiromoni Badamtala area.
Taking cognisance of the complaint, CMM Amali Adalat Judge Shahidul Islam recorded the plaintiff’s statement and fixed September 17 for giving the order regarding the investigation and the trial process.
Earlier on July 18, Shahjalal was shown placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in a case filed by Suma Akhter over the attempted pilfering of her vanity bag near Khalishpur’s Golakhali rail line the same day.
The man was allegedly caught by some bystanders while snatching the bag. He reportedly underwent a mob beating there before being handed over to police.
Shahjalal is now undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The doctors have performed two surgeries on him to enucleate his eyes.
Police have claimed that those involved in the beating are responsible for damaging his eyes.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the man alleges he was tortured by the coppers inside and outside of the cop shoppe on the night of his arrest after he refused to pay them a bribe.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) of the case filed by Suma, the alleged theft occurred around 11:30pm.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... some witnesses, as well as family members of the arrested, claimed that the incident took place a couple of hours earlier.
A departmental probe body was formed to investigate the matter on July 27.
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China is suspected of hacking the electronics of a yacht owned by a Chinese billionaire targeted by Beijing.
Guo Wengui, who uses the English name Miles Kwok, said several incidents involving his 152-foot motor yacht, Lady May, appear to be part of a Chinese government effort to threaten and intimidate him.
The suspicious hacking took place in July on the Hudson River near New York City and left the ship temporarily unable to turn and in danger of colliding with nearby freighter. Posted re: recent USN incidents
[Hurriyet Daily News] Most of Turkey isn't in Europe, and the culture to which it clings isn't remotely European.
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Well, German gov routinely tells its "citizens" that they have no right to say who can and who can't be allowed in their country. So, maybe the Turks have a point.
(dawn.com) A US national of Pakistan origin, who is serving in the White House in Washington DC, has been able to get Rs55 million fraud cases against his father put on back burner allegedly by exerting pressure on the local police through the ministry as well as the department concerned.
The police are rather harassing the complainants and implicating them in what they claim "frivolous" cases. The efficiencies of the police in complying with the desires of the US national are also noteworthy.
About a dozen farmers of Chak 7-JB, Panjor, including five siblings ‐ all aged between 57 and 70 ‐ have given up hope of justice after they sold their agricultural lands to Ashraf Awan of Bole De Jhugi, who is father of White House employee Shahid Imran, against Rs55 million sale consideration but the money he owed against the purchases never realised and all the seven cheques drawn on Allied Bank's Sargodha Road branch dishonoured.
The police have registered a dacoity case against all the complainants and some others allegedly after succumbing to US national's pressure.
Mohammad Abid, a victim of Awan's alleged high-profile swindling, said that Awan's son had easy access to the corridors of power and that's why he was able to pressurise the police to dance to his tunes.
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No freaking way Awan does this unassisted - which Dem congresscritter(s) helped him to lean on these guys? I can't see Debbie Downer intimidating anybody; maybe ol' Steny or Nancy Eyebags herself?
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A laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has frantically fought to keep prosecutors from examining may have been planted for police to find by her since-indicted staffer, Imran Awan, along with a letter to the U.S. Attorney.
U.S. Capitol Police found the laptop after midnight April 6, 2017, in a tiny room that formerly served as a phone booth in the Rayburn House Office Building, according to a Capitol Police report reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group. Alongside the laptop were a Pakistani ID card, copies of Awan’s driver’s license and congressional ID badge, and letters to the U.S. attorney. Police also found notes in a composition notebook marked “attorney-client privilege.”
That she did. Earlier this year, Capitol Police reportedly found the laptop (and note) in a small room in the Rayburn House Office Building, Wasserman Schultz had the following exchange with the Capitol Police Chief, who was warned of “consequences” for his investigation and continued confiscation of evidence:
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No mention of who the 'corridors' are, though. I have a pretty good idea.
Pausing to scratch my old balding head. Now what could possibly be gained by a long-standing intelligence relationship with Pakistani nationals living VIC Woodbridge, VA and working on the Hill ?
I was thinking of the 'Bagram to Abbottabad' flight cooridor, or would I be wrong ?
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Imran Still Has A Copy Of Congressional Data Linked To Wasserman Schultz
Excerpt: "David Damron, a spokesman for the Florida lawmaker, declined to tell The Daily Caller News Foundation why Wasserman Schultz would still be so adamant the allegations against Imran were made up even after Imran apparently took her laptop late at night and left it where it would be found, alongside other seemingly carefully curated evidence.
Damron would not clarify why she said the laptop was hers and she had lost it, then that it was Imran’s and she had never even seen it, and finally, the revelation that it had the username RepDWS, rather than Imran’s username."
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Now what could possibly be gained by a long-standing intelligence relationship with Pakistani nationals living VIC Woodbridge, VA and working on the Hill ?
Depends. If you were part of the Pakistani IC, what would you be interested in? Assuming that your in-CONUS assets were somewhat unstable, that is.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Eleven cops and Ansar members, including the officer-in-charge (OC) of Khulna’s Khalishpur 
China is suspected of hacking the electronics of a yacht owned by a Chinese billionaire targeted by Beijing.
