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U.S. consumers have many protections but no guarantees against credit card fraud"
PBS Newshour 12/19/2013
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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): The retail chain Target confirmed that hackers breached tens of millions of credit card and debit accounts at the height of the shopping season, just before Thanksgiving and right up until Dec. 15.
The theft occurred when people swiped their cards in store, not online. The retailer confirmed that customers' names, credit card and debit card numbers and security codes were stolen. It's the latest in a series of major breaches in recent years.
We explore them with Steve Surdu of Mandiant, a cyber-security firm.
How did 40 million accounts get compromised?
STEVE SURDU, Mandiant: Well, we don't know the details at this point in time. They're still investigating.
But, obviously, information had to be siphoned off from the organization. Attackers almost certainly came in from outside, put software in place that allowed them to aggregate the information over time and then remove it, so that they could use it.
RE: Hackers installed a Trojan virus that allowed external access to Target systems.
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Tricking the brain with transformative virtual reality"
PBS Newshour 12/18/2013
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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Correspondent Paul Solman takes a look at a technology that allows adventurous users to explore the latest developments in the world of video gaming.
It's part of his ongoing coverage Making Sense of financial news.
PAUL SOLMAN (Newshour): It was a 20-year-old named Palmer Luckey who would finally make science fiction dreams come true.
Working in his parents garage, he cobbled together a headset out of ski goggles, smartphone and tablet parts to create a just-like-real-life gaming experience. Then, hoping to raise $250,000 to take his invention to market, he turned to the crowd-funding Web site Kickstarter.
PALMER LUCKEY, Oculus Rift: So join the revolution. Make a pledge. And help up change gaming forever.
PAUL SOLMAN: Within days, he had 10 times what he needed, as gamers went gaga over the goggles.
