A troubling update on the Target hack

[thewayne]

It was revealed that Target's internal software for detecting malware et al did its job and detected the malware that resulted in the theft of all those cards and information. Alerts were raised in India and North America. And nothing was done about it. And the alerts popped up BEFORE the stolen data was exfiltrated. If they'd acted on the

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[silveradept]

That's not knives sharpening. Knives would be too quick and painless. Those are rusty spoons being dragged. Seriously, they bought the software but elected not to have it automatically stop things...