Target Corporation Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 27 Dec 2013 23:34:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Cutting through the fluff around the Target PIN breach https://dfarq.homeip.net/cutting-through-the-fluff-around-the-target-pin-breach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cutting-through-the-fluff-around-the-target-pin-breach Fri, 27 Dec 2013 23:34:38 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6984 OK, so Target is back in the news, and it’s nowhere nearly as bad this time but there’s some posturing and some fluff in the news, so I’ll take it upon myself to demystify some of it. Some of it’s

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]]> 6984 What I’m doing to protect myself after the Target data breach https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-im-doing-to-protect-myself-after-the-target-data-breach/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-im-doing-to-protect-myself-after-the-target-data-breach https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-im-doing-to-protect-myself-after-the-target-data-breach/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:00:41 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6981 As you’ve probably heard, Target had a bad month. Between the days of 27 November and 15 December, about 40 million credit card numbers were stolen, making it one of the biggest breaches of its kind in history. As far

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