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Friday, July 04, 2003
 PetCo.com on-line pet store was compromised by a 20 year old 'white hat' hacker who demonstrated that their ecommerce web site was vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack and left 500,000 credit card details open to compromise. This is the same kind of standard of trust and duty of care that caused the Federal Trade Commission to issue such a punitive ruling against Guess the fashion and clothing retailer last month.
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Security Focus article by Kevin Poulsen
PetCo
ecommnet's answer to minimising ecommerce database vulnerabilities.
posted by Robert Campbell 11:43 AM
 Google's Blogger PRO nee Pyra Labs, is rapidly becoming a swearword in this office after modifying their RDF RSS output yet again focing us to re-write the XSLT transforms for the front page news list summary.
Read a short article about transforming blogger's RDF RSS output into usable XHTML.
posted by Robert Campbell 10:58 AM
 According to many analysts 50% of all internet email will be SPAM within the next few months. Already AOL are reporting blocking over 2bn messages a day, and assuming others like Message Labs are doing their fair share of filtering the 50% water mark seems believable. Its unlikely that current moves for leglislation will have much effect, if any it may actually be negative. Several pending US leglislative efforts have favored the spammers by making it an opt-OUT policy while the EU is due to bring in directive this summer based upon an opt-IN policy. Do we think either of these will have an effect, well probably not, keep the lawyers happy though. ®©
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Financial Times article by Chris Nuttall, IT Correspondent
John Leyden @ The Register
posted by Robert Campbell 8:17 AM
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