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   Kommentar till text 5121 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: 40 million credit card accounts compromised
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>

Plus a QA person
http://www.cardsystems.com/careers/DevQACertTester_0402.pdf

Critical Knowledge –
• Good working knowledge and experience in performing manual testing in MS
Windows environments.
• Advance level of knowledge using the Microsoft Office products especially MS
Excel and MS Word.
• SQL Query - Good working knowledge and experience in performing manual
testing on projects that are developed using fixed field and delimited field
formats
• Experience in analyzing strings of raw data • Exposure to POS devices very
much a plus • Exposure to Editors, defects tracking systems and automated
testing tools experience a plus. Including the following: OOP • C++
• Windows 2000
• Windows NT MFC
• C#
• STL
• UML SQL
• .Net
• Concurrent Programming
• Encryption Programming of Secure Applications • MSDN suite
• XML
• XSD



On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:06:22 -0400, Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com> wrote:

>
>
>Seems CardSystems is in need of a .NET developer
>http://www.cardsystems.com/careers/DevDotNet_0501.pdf
>
> /m
>
>
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>On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:38:01 -0400, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>"It sounds like the Guinness Book of World Records here," said Richard Smith
>>
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/17/business/17cnd-card.html?hp&ex=1119067200&e
n=e14b93d0c4b1836d&ei=5094&partner=homepage
>>
>>MasterCard International reported late this afternoon that more than 40
>>million credit card accounts of all brands, including 13.9 million
>>MasterCards, may have been exposed to fraud through a security breach at a
>>third-party payment processing company.
>>
>>MasterCard said in a statement that its analysts and law enforcement
>>officials identified a security hole at CardSystems Solutions, a company
>>based in Tucson, Ariz., that processes more than $15 billion in Visa,
>>MasterCard, American Express, Discover, online debit and electronic transfer
>>transactions a year for small to midsize merchants and financial
>>institutions.
>>
>>An unauthorized person, MasterCard said, had been able to exploit this
>>security vulnerability and gain access to CardSystems' network, exposing the
>>credit card accounts of millions of customers.
>>
>>MasterCard said Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other sensitive
>>information that might contribute to identity theft are not stored on its
>>cards, although the credit card accounts accessed could be vulnerable to
>>fraudulent charges.
>>
>>It was not immediately clear when the breach occurred, or if the individual
>>or individuals who gained access to the data had been identified, but
>>MasterCard executives said that CardSystems had already taken steps to
>>improve the security of its system. "However," the company said in an
>>announcement of the breach, "MasterCard is giving it a limited amount of
>>time to demonstrate compliance with MasterCard security requirements."
>>
>>MasterCard said it was also notifying customer banks of specific card
>>accounts that "may have been subject to compromise so they can take the
>>appropriate measures to protect their cardholders."
>>
>>Representatives of the company were not immediately available for comment,
>>but the breach represents one of the largest in a relentless string of
>>security failures at financial institutions, data aggregators, media
>>companies and other organizations that compile, store and transmit consumer
>>data. The breaches have generated numerous state and federal bills aimed at
>>curbing the persistent leaks and holding companies more responsible for
>>their handling of consumer data.
>>
>>"Hardly a week goes by without startling new examples of breaches of
>>sensitive personal data reminding us how important it is to pass a
>>comprehensive identity theft prevention bill in Congress quickly," said
>>Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York. "Consumers' personal and
>>financial data has become the gold of the 21st century and we need to
>>protect it accordingly."
>>

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