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01/27/2002 02:15 PM ID: 16479 Permalink   

Don't Store Your Credit Card Info For 'Quick Checkouts' Online

 

Expensive business routers manufactured by Cisco, Ericsson and others using BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) have recently taken the interest of hackers for vulnerability of those routers, handling ISPs traffic, including personal data stored by ISP.

This should concern shoppers who have opted to store their credit card and other personal information permanently online at their ISP's servers for "quicker checkout during shopping" - feature offered by many like AOL Quick Cash and Amazon.

Routers by these manufacturers are often a part of your Internet Service Provider's network. US Defense Department and Verizon are developing a new Border Gateway Protocol - in the mean time - beware and every time enter personal info online manualy.

 
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  Store Credit Card # online?  
 I may be wrong on this but I would think that the only people foolish enough in this day & age to store their credit card number online would be people that just purchased a computer and really do not know any different! 
 by: Hoz     01/27/2002 03:47 PM     
  I agree with HOZ but:  
 Yeah it would be dumb to store credit card information on your ISP but ever notice a lot of commercial web sites do store that info? Ever use Amazon.com which alows you to store the info there and buy something at just one click of a button? One click shopping might make it easy for your info to get stolen. 
 by: jfury     01/27/2002 05:27 PM     
 
 
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