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Remembering Dolgin’s

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing, St. Louis October 3, 2014June 19, 20231980s, 1990s, best buy, Bing, christmas, Circuit City, commodore, commodore 64, IBM, Kansas City, LinkedIn, Missouri, profiles, Retailing, sears, tonka trucks

Growing up in Missouri, a lot of my Christmas gifts when I was young came from a catalog showroom called Dolgin’s. One of my earliest memories is going to Dolgin’s with my mom and aunt, who showed me some Tonka trucks and asked me which ones I liked best.

I know a lot of people remember going through Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs, but I remember Dolgin’s catalogs the best. Read more

Dave Farquhar

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.

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More Home Depot details emerge

Dave Farquhar security September 22, 2014September 20, 2014antivirus, breach, Brian Krebs, code execution, Data breach, home depot, malware, Payment systems, Retailing, vista, vulnerability, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Late last week, Home Depot finally released a statement about its data breach. At least they had the decency to call the attack “custom” and not spin it as “advanced” or “sophisticated.” Even “custom” is really a euphemism, as the attack wasn’t all that different from what other retailers experienced earlier in the year. It may have been as simple as recompressing the BlackPOS malware using a different compression algorithm or compression ratio to evade antivirus.

The breach involves about 56 million cards, making it a bigger breach than Target. Read more

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