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Online Billpay Provider Loses Control of Domains
An anonymous reader writes "Several sites are running a story about a domain hijacking at Checkfree, the largest provider of online bill payment services to numerous banks and credit unions. According to Network Solutions, someone logged in to the domain administration page using Checkfree's account, and redirected its domains to a site in the Ukraine configured to serve up malware to unsuspecting users." Things like this make me nervous about switching to otherwise-tempting online bill payment, but checks are dangerous, too.
CheckFree, what can I say? At least now my Nigerian account can be linked in and I will finally get my cut of the money that I fronted 1% for, to get it out of the country...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Obviously, the only safe solution is to not pay... what, that has problems too?!?
In Soviet Ukraine, engineers socialize you! (Oh god did I really just type that?)
... clearing something was a little TOO "check free". maybe they should change their name to "Checkalittlemore"
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Might help if everyone had to pay their health insurance and other employment benefits too. Oh, and also, for sex.
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