The perception that all kinds of people are scanning,snooping & sniffing has
mainly to do with inaccurate press coverage.If one were to believe them , it
would seem that CC fraud was happening all the time.Fact is, messages being
broken into packets arrive at the destination via dynamic routes, which
can't be predicted to pass through a particular router on it's way.And in
any case the transaction is encrypted.Mostly it's a Java Applet handling the
stuff at the client end, (so there's restricted access to the applets memory
area....) which passes
the result to a server side script, which connects to a payment Gateway, to
check the CC status && accepts ( or rejects ) the transaction.Which is then
again passed over to the merchents a/c at the payment Gateway.
Therefore even the merchant does'nt know your CCN.
This entire thing is sold as a package (SSL,SET,SSLelay etc..), in which the
above steps cannot easily be reverse engineered to do fraudulant things.
So the CCN being compromised on the way is out.
However the risk is genuine if there's some trojan( a keylogger for example)
sitting on your m/c.It's always advisable to check if the site you're buying
stuff
from has a https URL ( as Binad pointed out)& proper security mechanisms in
place.
In short it's much more worthwile to use physical means to get the CCN,
than electronically.If U care to check the stats with ICICI etc.. there
isn't any credit card fraud to speak of in the Internet compared to what
happens at the mall everyday.
bye
Kaushik
Chcek :- www.geocities.com/aseet_in/soft/hck/SSL.HTM
----- Original Message -----
From: Binand Raj S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 11:11 AM
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:04:05AM +0530, Mukund wrote:
> > |Has anybody purchased from India through net. If so how secure is the
> > Never dared!!, looking at the security of Indian ISP.
>
> Oops! I have been purchasing quite a lot of stuff from fabmart.com. I
> hope they are a bit secure (https auth et al). Anyone ever had any
> problems with stolen CC numbers in India?
>
> Binand
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