Did you hear about this?

This WebDNA talk-list message is from

1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 12549
interpreted = N
texte = > >SECURITY BREACH SHUTS DOWN ONLINE SPORTS STORES >The online stores at the popular ESPN SportsZone and NBA.com Web sites were >shut down after an anonymous person sent e-mail to hundreds of shoppers >who'd made purchases at the stores, saying he'd acquired their credit card >information from parent company Starwave's computer systems and including >their credit card number to prove it. Starwave says it's beefed up its >security now, and the ESPN SportZone store is already back up and running. >NBA.com is expected to be back online next week. We've changed the system >and now it's a much more painful process for us to fill orders, but it was >to make sure it was secure for our customers, says a Starwave spokeswoman. >You can be sure that we are doing everything possible to prevent it from >happening again. (InfoWorld Electric 11 Jul 97) Hi Grant and others, What is your take on this bit of news?Any fuel for this out in the marketplace is welcomed.-------------- Mark Rauterkus, Publisher, S.S.S. http://www.sportsurf.netmrauterkus@sportsurf.net -------------- Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Did you hear about this? (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Did you hear about this? (Mark Rauterkus 1997)
> >SECURITY BREACH SHUTS DOWN ONLINE SPORTS STORES >The online stores at the popular ESPN SportsZone and NBA.com Web sites were >shut down after an anonymous person sent e-mail to hundreds of shoppers >who'd made purchases at the stores, saying he'd acquired their credit card >information from parent company Starwave's computer systems and including >their credit card number to prove it. Starwave says it's beefed up its >security now, and the ESPN SportZone store is already back up and running. >NBA.com is expected to be back online next week. We've changed the system >and now it's a much more painful process for us to fill orders, but it was >to make sure it was secure for our customers, says a Starwave spokeswoman. >You can be sure that we are doing everything possible to prevent it from >happening again. (InfoWorld Electric 11 Jul 97) Hi Grant and others, What is your take on this bit of news?Any fuel for this out in the marketplace is welcomed.-------------- Mark Rauterkus, Publisher, S.S.S. http://www.sportsurf.netmrauterkus@sportsurf.net -------------- Mark Rauterkus

DOWNLOAD WEBDNA NOW!

Top Articles:

Talk List

The WebDNA community talk-list is the best place to get some help: several hundred extremely proficient programmers with an excellent knowledge of WebDNA and an excellent spirit will deliver all the tips and tricks you can imagine...

Related Readings:

Roundup function? (1997) New WebMerchant/Mac beta available (1997) RE: [WebDNA] WebDNA on Ubuntu 12.x (2013) [WebDNA] W3C Valid XHTML/CSS WebDNA Store templates (2009) Summary layout (1997) Large databases in WebCat (1997) Purchase Plugin Missing (1996) 2.0Beta Command Ref (can't find this instruction) (1997) SQL (2004) Customer - again (1998) E-mail formating question (1999) how does [middle] work? (1998) charge.com (2005) off topic - dna snipets (1997) Real Audio files (1997) Looping a variable name with [index] (1999) Sorting error (1997) SOLUTION.... Balancing randomness (2000) "Advanced" Search Algorithm (2008) more ! testing (1997)