In a world where an Alpha Flight movie finally gets made...

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...what diploma program should Heather McNeil - the future Vindicator - be taking at University of Calgary in order to get in the door with what's left of Roxxon Canada?

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[thewayne]

Data analyst focusing in cloud computing and big data analytics with specializations in Hadoop and R. Unbeknownst to them, she's also been specializing in data security and hacking techniques....

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*makes notes...*

[thewayne]

There’s a sweet trick for exfiltrating data that doesn’t require smuggling out USB drives, actually two that I can think of. One is the trick use by a certain former member of the US Army who wrote the data to CDs then labeled them Whitney Houston or something. Might’ve even burned some music on to them so they’d play if plugged in to a computer. You could put an entire album’s worth of MP3s and still have lots of data space. And there are printers that will print directly on certain specific types of CDs, so with some work you could make it look exactly like a store-bought CD. If you looked at the data side, it would still be purple rather than silver, but most non-IT people wouldn’t recognize that.

But the one that really made me sit up and say “Now THAT’S clever!” were the Target hackers. They took the stolen credit card data, then encrypted it before exfiltrating it. Companies frequently do packet inspection on outbound traffic looking for their data leaving the network. Since the data was encrypted, the packet inspection failed and the data sailed through unimpeded.