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A company profile well done
I just noticed our article in the Company Profile
section of the latest issue. All the work and waiting A Green Sheet Inc. publication • Vol. 16 No. 4 • December 2013
was definitely worth it. Thank you so much for being
patient with me and putting out this first piece about 2013 Acquirers Report
IRIS.
Dimitri Akhrin
Integrated Reporting Is Simple LLC
The Target attack
Do you know what method fraudsters used to breach Opportunities abound for those who adapt
Target stores over the holiday season? I've heard it was
likely an inside job. Any word on that? Where is the latest acquirers report?
Given the number of people who have either emailed
Gil Donaldson or phoned our office and asked how to find the latest
Merchant Level Salesperson acquirers report online, we decided to provide that
information here.
Gil, From the black, horizontal menu at our home page, www.
greensheet.com, hover your mouse over the E-Magazine
Thus far, Target Corp. has reported that investigators tab. From the green horizontal menu that appears, click on
have identified the tool used as malicious software that GSQ. The current issue featured on the page that loads is
infected POS systems at Target store checkout counters. the 2013 Acquirers Report. Click on the cover, and the issue's
The KrebsOnSecurity blog (www.krebsonsecurity.com) flipbook will appear. All 24 pages of the issue, exactly as
noted on Jan. 14 that the malware was of the memory- printed, are in the flipbook.
scraping variety. Memory scraping captures data from
a card's magnetic stripe the instant the card is swiped The Green Sheet has moved!
and the data remains only momentarily in the system's
memory. Some variants of the malware store stolen data We've mentioned our move from Santa Rosa to Rohnert
on a server that is downloaded later by a hacker. The data Park in other parts of the magazine in previous issues, but
captured provides enough information for criminals to we want to be sure all of our valued readers know how to
create counterfeit cards to use in fraudulent transactions. reach us.
We do not know whether this was an inside job. However, So here's The Green Sheet Inc.'s:
Krebs wrote that "according to sources, the attackers broke
into Target after compromising a company Web server. New street address:
Somehow, the attackers were able to upload the malicious
POS software to store point-of-sale machines, and then 5830 Commerce Blvd., Unit B
set up a control server within Target's internal network Rohnert Park, CA 94928
that served as a central repository for data hoovered by
all of the infected point-of-sale devices." New P.O. box number:
Incidentally, the number of reportedly compromised P.O. Box 750878
cards has risen to an estimated 110 million. Target initially Petaluma, CA 94975-0878
estimated 40 million cards were affected by the breach.
(For more information on the Target breach as it develops, New fax number:
visit Breaking Industry News on our home page.)
707-843-3509
Editor
The 800 number remains unchanged:
800-757-4441
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A company profile well done
I just noticed our article in the Company Profile
section of the latest issue. All the work and waiting A Green Sheet Inc. publication • Vol. 16 No. 4 • December 2013
was definitely worth it. Thank you so much for being
patient with me and putting out this first piece about 2013 Acquirers Report
IRIS.
Dimitri Akhrin
Integrated Reporting Is Simple LLC
The Target attack
Do you know what method fraudsters used to breach Opportunities abound for those who adapt
Target stores over the holiday season? I've heard it was
likely an inside job. Any word on that? Where is the latest acquirers report?
Given the number of people who have either emailed
Gil Donaldson or phoned our office and asked how to find the latest
Merchant Level Salesperson acquirers report online, we decided to provide that
information here.
Gil, From the black, horizontal menu at our home page, www.
greensheet.com, hover your mouse over the E-Magazine
Thus far, Target Corp. has reported that investigators tab. From the green horizontal menu that appears, click on
have identified the tool used as malicious software that GSQ. The current issue featured on the page that loads is
infected POS systems at Target store checkout counters. the 2013 Acquirers Report. Click on the cover, and the issue's
The KrebsOnSecurity blog (www.krebsonsecurity.com) flipbook will appear. All 24 pages of the issue, exactly as
noted on Jan. 14 that the malware was of the memory- printed, are in the flipbook.
scraping variety. Memory scraping captures data from
a card's magnetic stripe the instant the card is swiped The Green Sheet has moved!
and the data remains only momentarily in the system's
memory. Some variants of the malware store stolen data We've mentioned our move from Santa Rosa to Rohnert
on a server that is downloaded later by a hacker. The data Park in other parts of the magazine in previous issues, but
captured provides enough information for criminals to we want to be sure all of our valued readers know how to
create counterfeit cards to use in fraudulent transactions. reach us.
We do not know whether this was an inside job. However, So here's The Green Sheet Inc.'s:
Krebs wrote that "according to sources, the attackers broke
into Target after compromising a company Web server. New street address:
Somehow, the attackers were able to upload the malicious
POS software to store point-of-sale machines, and then 5830 Commerce Blvd., Unit B
set up a control server within Target's internal network Rohnert Park, CA 94928
that served as a central repository for data hoovered by
all of the infected point-of-sale devices." New P.O. box number:
Incidentally, the number of reportedly compromised P.O. Box 750878
cards has risen to an estimated 110 million. Target initially Petaluma, CA 94975-0878
estimated 40 million cards were affected by the breach.
(For more information on the Target breach as it develops, New fax number:
visit Breaking Industry News on our home page.)
707-843-3509
Editor
The 800 number remains unchanged:
800-757-4441
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