- Then you're using false WHOIS info, which is against ICANN policy. It seems you're agreeing with the GP - WHOIS data gets abused, there's a good reason to hide it. - Domain protection varies with registrar..ca, for example - it's turned on by default.
My only issue w/ stored procedures comes from an abstraction quarrel: Where should the logic be? The code? The DB? What if I need to debug, what if someone else needs to debug?
I've seen way too many nasty examples of shit going awry in databases, because someone has crazy triggers or stored procedures in place without documentation..
'Article' is at best 3 paragraphs, poorly written, with advert popups. For those who are interested, original text below.
Wow. That's quite a statistic, but there it is in front of me jumping off the pages of the latest global State of Enterprise Security study from Symantec. The two lines shining so brightly and grabbing my attention read "75 percent of organizations experienced cyber attacks in the past 12 months" and "these attacks cost enterprise businesses an average of $2 million per year". I'll say it again, wow!
Maybe that is not so surprising when you consider that the report states that every enterprise, yes 100 percent, experienced cyber losses in 2009. The top three losses being intellectual property theft, customer credit card data theft and the theft of other personally identifiable customer data. These losses translated into a financial cost 92 percent of the time mainly in terms of productivity, revenue, and tanking customer trust.
Of course, as I have said before the math is always hard on the brain when you read these reports. That 75 percent figure is revealed immediately after we are informed that apparently 42 percent of organisation consider that security is the number one consideration for their business, beating off competition from such things as natural disaster and terrorism and traditional crime. In fact, it is a bigger concern than all three of those things combined. The disparity between the two could, of course, be partly down to another revelation in the report: enterprise security is becoming more difficult due to understaffing, new IT initiatives that intensify security issues and IT compliance issues.
When it comes to understaffing, network security is the biggest problem for 44 percent of those responding, with endpoint security sharing the honours also on 44 percent. There there are the initiatives that IT rated as most problematic from a security standpoint include infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a service, server virtualisation, endpoint virtualisation, and software-as-a-service. And not forgetting compliance, with your typical enterprise having to explore no less than 19 separate IT standards or frameworks and employ around eight of them.
"Protecting information today is more challenging than ever" said Francis deSouza, senior vice president, Enterprise Security, Symantec Corp. "By putting in place a security blueprint that protects their infrastructure and information, enforces IT policies, and manages systems more efficiently, businesses can increase their competitive edge in today's information-driven world."
RealityCheckNetwork get a second thumbs up. AMS / US datacenters, staff who can think into the future, and ICQ support, all make for a great host. I've not used their virtual hosting, always been dedicated boxes.
The other stand-out host is ISPrime.com - We have a cluster of about 50 boxes over there, and a similar setup in their AMS NOC. Incredible hosting.
Both VISA and Mastercard have very explicit regulations on data sharing, and how 'Cross Sales' are conducted: they both prohibit it in their merchant agreements. VISA is somewhat lax on its enforcement, preferring to take a case-by-case approach if there is abuse, however has been cracking down significantly on this type of behavior of late: http://corporate.visa.com/media-center/press-releases/press969.jsp
Mastercard will fine and terminate merchants it finds passing CC information between third parties. Fines normally start at 25k per offense.
The storage of CC data is another highly regulated procedure. 'Normal' merchants are prevented from storing CC data, and to even handle it, normally have to become PCI-compliant. The storage of CVV data is very, very regulated - You have to have PCI-level 3 compliance - something typically reserved for merchant processors themselves.
To say that no regulation exists is somewhat uninformed.
However, even with the above all in place, as these guys are all using merchant accounts, they're going to see all the CC/CVV information in the flux; as presented by the article, it's very common to use this data, if the merchants can 'stay under the radar'.
Yes, and yes. First instance of one 'in the wild' was when I grabbed a cab in barcelona. Saw a small black box w/ 3 antennas that looked suspiciously like cell-band harmonic lengths. Asked the cabby why he had a cell phone jammer, and he said it was to combat rude people who sat there and screamed on the phone. People who used the phone w/ étiquette: no problems. Is it his call to make? It's his cab, tough call.
You can buy them cheaply now from Deal Extreme.
Note, these things (at least in a lot of places) are highly illegal.
Side note: Not all depression meds are 'hard'. Check out something like Zoloft, which works to balance the level of seratonin, to work to fix the problem, as opposed to a med that simply 'props' you up. I had similar issues years ago, found Zoloft was a good fit for a few reasons: 1) As mentioned above, it helps fix the cause, not the symptoms 2) Taking anti-depressives is depressing. Taking one you know won't fuck you up helps lessen the blow.
Chat to a sensible doctor. There may be something that fits you.
Firstly: Both VISA and MC do not allow 'Cross Sales' between different merchants - that is, passing your CC to another merchant.
Now, these rules exist, but are not enforced, typically unless a merchant is abusing them [IE, selling the data, passing it on without disclosure, etc] About 3 months ago MC came down hard, and started enforcing its rule, due to a large amount of abuse (probably relating to this incident)
Visa is also currently in talks of shutting down / rolling up abusive merchants - they met in Europe about it about 8 days ago.
Secondly: To hold, store, re-use or transfer CC information, in theory you have to be PCI compliant, which is a fairly stringent process that ensures everything is encrypted, etc, CVV data isn't held [or if it is, you need a higher level of compliance] - security of the networks, machines, sites, etc are all tested.
Now that doesn't stop your gas station owner (or anyone that doesn't care about CC rules) from taking a copy of the info - but outside of that, this is very strictly controlled.
Or alternatively, they know how to save money. Instead of paying thousands of dollars for a design, integration, etc, they drop $50 and have a nice, proven theme. Seems like the smart thing to do to me.
French justice operates on intentions. This isn't the same everywhere in the world.
The French seem to harbour incredible disdain towards their police services, but I have found French police to be more understanding, and to deal out common sense in equal proportion to law.
Law makers in france are generally geriatric, and disconnected from reality. The passing of laws like this, and others like HADOPI only show how disconnected they are.
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- Then you're using false WHOIS info, which is against ICANN policy. It seems you're agreeing with the GP - WHOIS data gets abused, there's a good reason to hide it. .ca, for example - it's turned on by default.
- Domain protection varies with registrar.
My only issue w/ stored procedures comes from an abstraction quarrel:
Where should the logic be? The code? The DB?
What if I need to debug, what if someone else needs to debug?
I've seen way too many nasty examples of shit going awry in databases, because someone has crazy triggers or stored procedures in place without documentation..
'Article' is at best 3 paragraphs, poorly written, with advert popups.
For those who are interested, original text below.
RealityCheckNetwork get a second thumbs up.
AMS / US datacenters, staff who can think into the future, and ICQ support, all make for a great host.
I've not used their virtual hosting, always been dedicated boxes.
The other stand-out host is ISPrime.com - We have a cluster of about 50 boxes over there, and a similar setup in their AMS NOC.
Incredible hosting.
..curious, seems you exhibit the very attitude you bemoan..
UQ? QUT?
Google just confirmed: date an american, and it's all over in 52 seconds.
Both VISA and Mastercard have very explicit regulations on data sharing, and how 'Cross Sales' are conducted: they both prohibit it in their merchant agreements.
VISA is somewhat lax on its enforcement, preferring to take a case-by-case approach if there is abuse, however has been cracking down significantly on this type of behavior of late: http://corporate.visa.com/media-center/press-releases/press969.jsp
Mastercard will fine and terminate merchants it finds passing CC information between third parties. Fines normally start at 25k per offense.
The storage of CC data is another highly regulated procedure. 'Normal' merchants are prevented from storing CC data, and to even handle it, normally have to become PCI-compliant.
The storage of CVV data is very, very regulated - You have to have PCI-level 3 compliance - something typically reserved for merchant processors themselves.
To say that no regulation exists is somewhat uninformed.
However, even with the above all in place, as these guys are all using merchant accounts, they're going to see all the CC/CVV information in the flux; as presented by the article, it's very common to use this data, if the merchants can 'stay under the radar'.
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here, huge success.
Yes, and yes.
First instance of one 'in the wild' was when I grabbed a cab in barcelona. Saw a small black box w/ 3 antennas that looked suspiciously like cell-band harmonic lengths. Asked the cabby why he had a cell phone jammer, and he said it was to combat rude people who sat there and screamed on the phone. People who used the phone w/ étiquette: no problems. Is it his call to make? It's his cab, tough call.
You can buy them cheaply now from Deal Extreme.
Note, these things (at least in a lot of places) are highly illegal.
Is swirly thing above or below orange?
No surprises. Vinyl sounds better.
Side note: Not all depression meds are 'hard'.
Check out something like Zoloft, which works to balance the level of seratonin, to work to fix the problem, as opposed to a med that simply 'props' you up.
I had similar issues years ago, found Zoloft was a good fit for a few reasons:
1) As mentioned above, it helps fix the cause, not the symptoms
2) Taking anti-depressives is depressing. Taking one you know won't fuck you up helps lessen the blow.
Chat to a sensible doctor. There may be something that fits you.
GP doesn't know what he's talking about.
Firstly:
Both VISA and MC do not allow 'Cross Sales' between different merchants - that is, passing your CC to another merchant.
Now, these rules exist, but are not enforced, typically unless a merchant is abusing them [IE, selling the data, passing it on without disclosure, etc]
About 3 months ago MC came down hard, and started enforcing its rule, due to a large amount of abuse (probably relating to this incident)
Visa is also currently in talks of shutting down / rolling up abusive merchants - they met in Europe about it about 8 days ago.
Secondly:
To hold, store, re-use or transfer CC information, in theory you have to be PCI compliant, which is a fairly stringent process that ensures everything is encrypted, etc, CVV data isn't held [or if it is, you need a higher level of compliance] - security of the networks, machines, sites, etc are all tested.
Now that doesn't stop your gas station owner (or anyone that doesn't care about CC rules) from taking a copy of the info - but outside of that, this is very strictly controlled.
Or alternatively, they know how to save money. Instead of paying thousands of dollars for a design, integration, etc, they drop $50 and have a nice, proven theme.
Seems like the smart thing to do to me.
2co.com ?
IQ of 135, and you still missed the first post.
Stop corroborating the author!
419 Scammers are probably the best supporting evidence of this research.
Countless rich, intelligent people throwing away vast amounts of cash.
Absolutely, 6 months later.
French justice operates on intentions.
This isn't the same everywhere in the world.
The French seem to harbour incredible disdain towards their police services, but I have found French police to be more understanding, and to deal out common sense in equal proportion to law.
Because there's an immense difference between 'cheap' and 'free'.
..or 'Poker' could have been code for gambling, and 'Blackjack' could have been code for hookers.
Would explain the smile.
Who carry their harpoons!
Law makers in france are generally geriatric, and disconnected from reality.
The passing of laws like this, and others like HADOPI only show how disconnected they are.
Nah, the panoramics were all shot on film. Just careful selection of position + composure.