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This is normally read-only memory that retains its information until it is exposed to ultraviolet light. You can often tell a chip is an EPROM by the small window on it that lets ultraviolet light though to program the EPROM.
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Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory - In article , monty@roscom.comsays: By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus A Cincinnati man who pleaded guilty Thursday to cracking and cloning giant consumer databases was only caught because he helped out a friend in the hacker community. Daniel Baas, 25, plead guilty Thursday to a single federal felony count of "exceeding authorized access" to a protected computer for using a cracked password to penetrate the systems of Arkansas-based Acxiom Corporation -- a company known among privacy advocates for its massive collection and sale of consumer data. The company also analyzes in-house consumer databases for a variety of companies. From October, 2000 until last June, Baas worked as the system administrator at the Market Intelligence Group, a Cincinnati data mining company that was performing work for Acxiom. As part of his job, he had legitimate access to an Acxiom FTP server. At some point, while poking around on that server, he found an unprotected file containing encrypted passwords. Some of those passwords proved vulnerable to a run-of-the-mill password cracking program, and one of them, "packers," gave Baas access to all of the accounts used by Acxiom customers -- credit card companies, banks, phone companies, and other enterprises -- to access or manage consumer data stored by Acxiom . He began copying the databases in bulk, and burning them onto CDs.This is why you NEVER keep logs on your IRC chat client or on the IRCserver itself.Very interesting though. Much of the data out there about us is open toall sorts of attacks. THe very credibility of services like Equifax,Experian and the likes it at stake yet we never hear anything about it.A laptop belonging to a Fiserv employee was recently stolen fromBankRI. The laptop had about 43k customer account information on itincluding SSN and they played it down by saying the machine itself hadlocking software - ie. WinXP. But anybody knows that NTFSDos Procircumvents the security on XP.My guess is that whoever stole it didn't have the intention ofstealing customer data. Instead they wanted the laptop and probablyformatted the thing and fenced it off somewhere.
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