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Hacker Breaches Credit Card Security and MSN Gets Bork Bork Borked
February 21st, 2003
Today's show discussed hacker breaches of credit
card security. This week there was the theft of some 8 million credit
card numbers. What does it mean to consumers? What does this have to
do with the Internet, and giving your credit card on the 'net?
Check out
The second is kind of a fun -- but troubling at the same time. This
article explains how Opera (a company
claiming to have the fastest browser on the Internet, and one that I
use frequently) is fighting back against Microsoft's blocking of
non-Microsoft Internet Explorer users from MSN. Opera has released a
version of their browser which automatically translates MSN's homepage
into the Muppets' Swedish Chef's Bork
Bork Borkish. Predatory
practices on the part of Microsoft -- again? Nah...
Also
What to do?
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Cover the basics
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Only use a credit card with a merchant that you trust, and with a
clerk you trust.
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When on-line, use a secure server.
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Watch your credit card bill closely.
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Review the ID Quiz to see if you're vulnerable
to identify theft.
Mainstream Security Services' Security Expert, R. Craig Peterson, can
be heard weekly at 12 noon Saturdays on WGIR AM610, WGIN AM930 and
WGIP AM1540. The show can be heard in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, and
Massachusetts.
To submit potential subjects, to ask questions, or to get more
information, e-mail
Craig Peterson.
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