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blackcreek
02-20-2003, 08:45 PM
How secure are SSL connections really? Can some hacker along the way from a secure site from where data was sent from intercept the data between both a clients browser and the destination? For example, if I have a supercerthosting.com secure account and have a CGI accept credit cards over my https://supercerthosting.com/myaccount/mycgi.cgi can a hacker use another secure connection to trick the cgi into sending the info to
the hacker-made CGI? I have been very curious about this for a long time...
Thanks
Blackcreek
Jason
03-10-2003, 02:46 AM
Very few credit card numbers are intercepted from correctly set up SSL submissions, it is so rare that I have never heard of a case. I deal with credit card fraud daily, and almost all of it is from sources such as scams ie AOL new comers may be fooled by a form made to look like an AOL , or they may be submitted to false businesses. These numbers are then often distributed by "hacker" sites, very common they are Russian or Turkish. If it is even possible to steal ard numbers this way, it would take monumentally more effort than to acquire them through an online scam, or through a site that distributes them.
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