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Inside The Year's Biggest Data Breach

Posted August 19, 2009 7:48 AM

From Forbes.com: Technology News:

The U.S. Department of Justice's indictment of Albert Gonzalez on Monday seems to have all the elements of a Hollywood crime drama: A hacker gains access to millions of credit and debit card numbers and has the power to take down a nation. Too bad for Tinseltown, the attack itself was about as sexy and a pile of routers.

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08/19/2009 10:11 AM

Too bad for Tinseltown, the attack itself was about as sexy and a pile of routers.

oh, no....leave it to Hollywood to make it a blockbouster....Austin Powers sequel......."OH BeHave"

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08/19/2009 3:44 PM

OH THE HUMANITY! When will people learn that the computer's wireless access point default password is as secure as not having password protection at all.

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08/20/2009 5:48 AM

Internet banking, eh? Mugs!

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