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Hackers are going after credit card payment processor companies

posted January 23, 2009 - 12:30pm
Hackers are going after credit card payment processor companies

[img_assist|nid=288643|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=90]And they are having success. These companies bascially hold your data until your bank takes the money out of your account and puts it into the retailer's account. The flaw, according to the article, seems to be that there is no encryption done on the data when in transit between private networks. A flaw that hackers are now exploiting.

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Website: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/01/credit-card-hac.h...


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