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Network Solutions Suffers Massive Data Breach
dasButcher writes "Network Solutions, the domain registration and hosting service company, suffered a massive security breach that lasted three months and exposed tens of thousands of credit card numbers of its customers and of the businesses that use its hosting and online payment processing service. The company is just beginning the victim notification process. 'There is no information on how the code was planted on the sites. While examination of the code shows that it had the ability to ship data off to a third party, and Network Solutions believes that it did just that, the exact code is not available for public review. There is also no public information as to where the data believed to be stolen was sent.'"
This is exactly why you dont go with the *HUGE* penises. Theres a huge possibility that someone somewhere will target it and get around their security. It just takes one hack and all customers are affected. Security by obscurity is not always such a bad idea; go with the small ones who also can do their shit, and aren't such a big target.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090725/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_harvard_scholar
My favorite quote from the article:
"The story had taken on a life of its own, and the White House scrambled to keep up."
LOL, that seems to characterize the job Robert Gibbs is doing pretty well!
Guilty!
I registered my domains with a small registrar once upon a time. A few years later, they became bankrupt, and I was left scrambling to transfer my domains to an established, well-known registrar.
Lesson: this is exactly why you don't go with small companies.
Small mouths can suck just as much as the big ones. All you can do is go by reputation: unfortunately, by the time a mouth has gotten popular enough to gain a good reputation, it probably has begun to start thinking more about its herpes.