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60,000 Credit Cards Numbers Stolen Online

robl writes "140,000 credit card numbers were tested for validity yielding about 62,000 valid credit card numbers and $300,000 of fraudulent charges. A good quote: "There wasn't a system in place to say, 'you've generated 140,000 charges, that's more than your normal volume.'" As Schneier-heads would say, it's a brittle system -- when the security fails, it fails badly."

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  1. Quality Issues with Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Q: There is a lot of comment that gets posted that falls below the threshold line. How are you developing that technology to deliver comments so that readers get some information out of the boards?

    A: We have a constant problem with people who are trying to break our system for no other purpose than they have nothing better to do--like their bosses haven't assigned them enough to do at work today, or that their mom hasn't made them mow the lawn, in most cases!

  2. Re:Funding Terrorism? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have three children with three different women. Do you think they gave me any money? Think again.

  3. MEEPT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Keep posting the comments my VA Software employees (whip cracks)

    MEEPT!!

  4. Goat Sex is Fun! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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  6. All the more reason... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...for a police state here in the US. There needs to be some major crackdowns on illegal behavior, both on and off the internet. What valid arguments can there possibly be especially after 9/11 against a police state? Arguments citing "freedom", "rights", "constitution", etc are not valid and you shouldn't waste your time.

  7. Re:Microsoft needs some new cards by Nipok+Nek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "i" before "e" except after "c". Kindergarten time for MS - phorm

    Is that so? Then Explain "Weird Science"

    --
    Why choose white shoes?
  8. HA! That's a PLP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    PLP FOREVER

  9. Re:Microsoft needs some new cards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So, basically, you are using one of the well known exceptions to a rule in the English language to do... what? Slashdot editors are still idiots who can't spell or run their work through a spellchecker.