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Somedude8
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Somedude8,
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3/14/2014 | 1:01:57 PM
Re: Target Security team is inexperienced and or incompetent.
I am not so sure that IP filtering would have helped at with the infiltration, since the penetration vector was through a contractor, unless that HVAC contractor was in the blacklist, in which case they wouldn't have been able to do their jobs. IP filtering would of course not help with exfilatration.

This development really highlights the growing difficulty of filtering the signal from the noise in an age of exponentially expanding volume of data. Its like many of us are falling in to the same trap that amateur website owners often do: If everything is in all caps, people will read everything because all caps means its important right? I would not be at all surprised if the same people that evaluated the alarm mentioned in the article were also monitoring alarms from countless workstations and who knows what else. Doesn't surprise me at all that this got lost in the shuflle. But it still terrifies me!

This also underscores the near uselessness of the PCI spec. It is not a something to use to avoid a breach, its something to use to reduce the chance of a lawsuit. "Hey! We were PCI compliant! Its not our fault!"
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3/14/2014 | 12:35:59 PM
Target Security team is inexperienced and or incompetent.
A competent IT and security individual  would have been in code red attempting to stop the attack. The fact the target "security team" did not recognize the threat shows a lack of technical understanding and/or experieence.

It has been a number of years  since I have done system security however a simple  thing to do is filter out all IP addresses outside of the needed range. Certain  countries(i.e. China, Russia) have been threats for years and years. The Target "security team" didn't understand this?


On the positive side, maybe now the non-tech world which is using technology to make money will spend more money on better security.
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DarrenM555,
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3/14/2014 | 12:20:45 PM
They ignored it?
Between this and the "thigh gap" fiasco, it's a wonder they keep any customers. I don't shop there very often but I'll certainly think twice about giving them any of my hard-earned money in the future.
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