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09-14-2017 , 05:12 PM

#51

mark "twang"

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Originally Posted by rafiki

Shorting Equifax is like the erection that never ends. It's not bad.

Man you sure post about your d*ck a lot.

Short or long?

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09-14-2017 , 05:31 PM

#52

rafiki

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Originally Posted by mark "twang"

Man you sure post about your d*ck a lot.

Short or long?

Not MY dick, dicks in general. I don't discriminate!

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09-14-2017 , 05:35 PM

#53

rafiki

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Originally Posted by MyrnaFTW

11 billion now.. i covered , but i wonder whats the further possible downside.

I've worked out some cases in the $60 a share range. There are worse too, but $60 seems very possible within a year.

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09-14-2017 , 05:57 PM

#54

mark "twang"

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Originally Posted by rafiki

Not MY dick, dicks in general. I don't discriminate!

ha nice. Appreciate your posts in the trading thread. You seem to be on top of sh*t right as things move.

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09-14-2017 , 06:00 PM

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rafiki

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Originally Posted by mark "twang"

ha nice. Appreciate your posts in the trading thread. You seem to be on top of sh*t right as things move.

Hey thanks. Don't post as much anymore, guess today a lot happend. My ability to sniff out value is essentially zero, so I make up for that by being sneaky. Getting decent at drawing trend lines like this though:

Spoiler:

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09-14-2017 , 06:04 PM

#56

mark "twang"

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^ Solid gold.

I'm not nearly the smartest poster in this forum, but I may have the biggest ballz.

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09-15-2017 , 09:28 AM

#57

rafiki

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Time for the next leg down. Let us feast.

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09-15-2017 , 10:29 AM

#58

rafiki

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I find when raping EFX, one must still doing it in a loving fashion. Basically like this:

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09-16-2017 , 01:13 AM

#59

meekrab

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Originally Posted by donfairplay

If its unenforceable, then why is the NY AG trying to get Equifax to remove it?

Because the NY AG generally prefers if companies don't blatantly lie.

Anyway, clicking a button on a website doesn't opt you out of a class action lawsuit. Never has, never will.

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09-16-2017 , 01:22 AM

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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/...op/#more-40773

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Visa and MasterCard are sending confidential alerts to financial institutions across the United States this week, warning them about more than 200,000 credit cards that were stolen in the epic data breach announced last week at big-three credit bureau Equifax. At first glance, the private notices obtained by KrebsOnSecurity appear to suggest that hackers initially breached Equifax starting in November 2016. But Equifax says the accounts were all stolen at the same time — when hackers accessed the company’s systems in mid-May 2017.

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“We know that criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability. The vulnerability was Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638. We continue to work with law enforcement as part of our criminal investigation, and have shared indicators of compromise with law enforcement.”

The Apache flaw was first spotted around March 7, 2017, when security firms began warning that attackers were actively exploiting a “zero-day” vulnerability in Apache Struts. Zero-days refer to software or hardware flaws that hackers find and figure out how to use for commercial or personal gain before the vendor even knows about the bugs.

By March 8, Apache had released new versions of the software to mitigate the vulnerability. But by that time exploit code that would allow anyone to take advantage of the flaw was already published online — making it a race between companies needing to patch their Web servers and hackers trying to exploit the hole before it was closed.

Screen shots apparently taken on March 10, 2017 and later posted to the vulnerability tracking site xss[dot]cx indicate that the Apache Struts vulnerability was present at the time on annualcreditreport.com — the only web site mandated by Congress where all Americans can go to obtain a free copy of their credit reports from each of the three major bureaus annually.

In another screen shot apparently made that same day and uploaded to xss[dot]cx, we can see evidence that the Apache Struts flaw also was present in Experian’s Web properties.

Equifax has said the unauthorized access occurred from mid-May through July 2017, suggesting either that the company’s Web applications were still unpatched in mid-May or that the attackers broke in earlier but did not immediately abuse their access.

It remains unclear when exactly Equifax managed to fully eliminate the Apache Struts flaw from their various Web server applications. But one thing we do know for sure: The hacker(s) got in before Equifax closed the hole, and their presence wasn’t discovered until July 29, 2017.

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Update, Sept. 15, 12:31 p.m. ET: Visa has updated their advisory about these 200,000+ credit cards stolen in the Equifax breach. Visa now says it believes the records also included the cardholder’s Social Security number and address, suggesting that (ironically enough) the accounts were stolen from people who were signing up for credit monitoring services through Equifax.

lol, you can't make this **** up.

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09-16-2017 , 01:27 AM

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Free freezes tho, at least at equifax.

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A major frustration for consumers who've sought to protect themselves from the Equifax data breach has been having to pay for freezing and unfreezing their credit, as a precaution against fraud. On Friday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and a dozen other Democrats introduced a bill that would ban credit reporting bureaus such as Equifax, Experian and TransUnion from charging consumers for the service.

Equifax said in its statement the company would offer free security freezes through Nov. 21.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...e-data-breach/

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09-16-2017 , 08:29 AM

#62

rafiki

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I'm telling y'all, short it to the ground. So much room to go.

I love what they found out about the CSO of the company:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...as-music-major

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09-18-2017 , 03:43 AM

#63

nickjehz

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always smart to have admin/admin as credentials... :')

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09-19-2017 , 06:07 PM

#64

rafiki

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I am amused by who is buying adwords when you google "Equifax"

kick'm while they're down!

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09-20-2017 , 02:28 PM

#65

ibavly

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https://gizmodo.com/equifax-has-been...g-s-1818588764

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03-08-2019 , 04:13 PM

#66

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Equifax now let's you (or anyone) unfreeze your credit without knowing your PIN: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/...it-freeze-pin/

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