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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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Subject: Re: OT - Heartland Payment Systems
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Janos Dohanics wrote:
 > I came across this today:
 > 
 > http://information-security-resources.com/2009/01/29/did-heartland-ceo-make-insider-trades/
 > 
 > The article discusses some questions about the security breach which occurred 
 > at Heartland Payment Systems. Among other things, the article says:
 > 
 > ˙˙Somehow, these guys went directly to the base level of the machine (to an 
 > area) that was not part of the file table for the disk˙˙
 > 
 > ˙˙Somehow, they got around the operating system."
 > 
 > I'm wondering what is suggested here?

Apart from poor grammar, to me it suggests that they're trying really 
hard to not reveal which version of Windows they're running ..

Ian
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