Re: Best Way to Avoid Virus Infection? Update Your Software

[phester <funsec () armorfirewall com>]

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:10:06 EDT, Rich Kulawiec said:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 01:21:15PM -0400, Alex Eckelberry wrote:
> > > Does anyone actually know at this point how Epsilon was hacked?
> >
> > Does anyone actually know that Epsilon was hacked?
>
> Solipsism is the only possibly correct world view, but that's just one man's opinion.
>
> Other than that, I think it's reasonable to assume that either they were
> hacked, or they found it expedient to claim they had been hacked to cover up
> something even more nefarious.

A spammer is a spammer.

I find the language of the notifaction emails interesting: "According to 
Epsilon, the information that was obtained was limited to first name 
and/or email addresses only"

So, this implies they may have had more information. I'd like to know what 
types of personal information the companies I do business with sent to 
epsilon, and what kind of information epsilon may have compiled.

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