The biggest story this week was the Target holiday cyber breach hits 40 million payment cards. We jokingly said we should—like in the movie Blazing Saddles where Slim Picken’s character encounters a toll booth in the middle of the desert and, rather than go around it, exclaims to his posse that “Somebody’s got to go back and get a sh*tload of dimes!” (at youtube)—start paying our checkout amount at Target with bags of dimes.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Ruth’s Boogie Artist: Jake Lear. Brought to us by Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota Stories
- Target Breach
- Dec 13th story broken by Brian Krebs: Target Investigating Data Breach
- Advice for leery Target customers from creditcards.com
- Target security breach: Questions and answers
- Target CEO offers credit monitoring, discount and four-part video apology for data breach
- One estimate: Cost of Target data breach could hit $680 million
- Stolen Target Credit Cards Are Selling For $20 – $100 Each
- Target’s Biggest PR Mistake With Credit Card Security Breach
- Check your Credit
- Apple’s Mac Pro Debuts
- Best Buy: 2013’s top retail stories: Best Buy bounces back
- QFOLabs: Toy copter that bombed on Kickstarter now on Brookstone
Other Stories
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- Use Extreme Caution With Your Debit Card (this is a detailed post here on Minnov8)
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