How Attackers Will Use Epsilon Data Against You 78
Trailrunner7 writes "What might the criminals who broke into Epsilon do with the email lists they have? The easiest thing to do is to sell these data sets on the black market or, potentially, to competitors of victim firms. According to the latest data from data-breaches.net, totals are up to 57 customers including credit card providers with branded cards — Visa (notices sent for at least 3 cards), the World Financial Network National Bank (12 cards) and Citi (3 cards). The criminals may make some money there and re-invest it into technology or services for other efforts. Once an attacker has gained a foothold on one or more systems used by their mark, they can begin harvesting credentials. The frequency with which average consumers use the same username/password combination across multiple sites is such that such information could lead to accessing other potentially-existing accounts on high-profile social networks."
Re:Will the bad formatting here EVER get fixed?? (Score:4, Informative)
The score display/hiding seems to be totally random.
Worse is the article expand/collapse misfeature. When I go to do a reply, every time I click in the text box it thinks I want to expand the thread further. Basically I have to expand every article in the thread (and many run to 20 levels) just to start entering my reply.
Total #fail on someone's scripty little part.
And in the article-submission dialog, the edit box is about 20% wider than the box, so the right half of every line is hidden. Only way to deal with that is to compose in an editor and paste it into the box. Plus the tag entry is bollocks. It enters the tag if you hit the spacebar, orders the tags randomly, and trying to delete one only succeeds in giving you the negation of the tag, not the deletion of it. The only way to deal with that is to close the submission form, clear your history and cookies (stuff in that form is ultra-sticky) and start over.
But at least I can use the word "replace" in a posting now, without some eval code bunging that up.
Re:Passwords not compromised (Score:3, Informative)