I kinda joked about this last night on Strikepoint that what would happen if Google Lost your data … One thing I didn’t think about was what would happen if I had my credit card in my hand (like I did today), I see a product I want to Buy (like I did today).. and the checkout option was GOOGLE CHECKOUT
and all I got was this :
Firewall Script I'm going to do a full write up on this, but I have been testing this out on a blog, that's been hacked and DDOS a few times over the last 6 months, why do people feel I want to host their Malware, why don't I just update WP time and effort I guess
Anyway I had been looking for a solution that i can install on a shared box that that I didn't have root access on.
Anyway My test is coming to an end, and I going to try and score a deal on a multiple domain license, or even try and buy a lump of the company lol
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“oops”
To pass time you could have logged into gmail, the likelihood of seeing a similar message is slim. :D
Dave, what is this firefox extension that shows the ip and (3 more) ?
Hey Mike I use flock .. I have installed ..
Webdeveloper 1.0.2
CustomizeGoogle 0.28( + I Tweaked that a bit)
ShowIP 0.8.02 (+ I fine tuned some settings)
SearchStatus 1.16 ( quirk ) ( + I Tweaked that too )
Seo Books Seo for Firefox 1.5.0.8b ( cool Rev number)
DaveN
Admit it - this was the real message, wasn’t it? :P
http://www.fusednation.com/images/googlecheckout.jpg
Dave,
Wasn’t there something about G Checkout and US based only? I thought this was applicaple only to the vendors that they’ll let use this service but perhaps something related to transactions as well?
Did you ask your CC company if there are any blocks on ’suspicious’ web sites using your CC? I have something similar on one of my cards and they blocked a transaction with amazon.com…lol
Mike, see http://L4X.org/ for the ShowIP extension for Mozilla and Firefox.
The latest version is 0.8.03 - I couldn’t get 0.8.02 to work.
I checked out “Google-checkout”.
The overall process seems to be very easy but exactly that makes this solution very vulnerable. During checkout there was no security question to make sure that I’m indeed the owner of the Google account or the associated Credit Cards in that account. Of course I used my username and password but because there are so many Google sites, using the same username and password, it is very easy to loose your login information on a hijacking page as you might not check the url for Ad-Words or Gmail every time you log on as those services never had the possibility to shop with your Credit Card.
Now because you have one account and login information for all it is quite possible that hackers will try to get your login information from any Google service out there! Even worth is the fact that the hacker can change the password without any problem. The owner of the account might not even get any information about the password change as the e-mail is sent to the according and hijacked Gmail account.
Because of this HUGE security risk I would not recommend using Google checkout!
Please checkout the http://www.thebilliondollarpatent.com as s-registration solution that Google should have implemented in their service to make it solid and secure. This solution is requiring a third credential called TAN to make sure that ONLY the owner of that account is able to shop online even in case the account is hijacked.
I hope that everybody is aware of the security issue with Google checkout and will inform Google of a better solution!
Thanks and be safe;-)))!!
How did google get the DNS entry “google” ? I think the world’s ISP’s are slowly updating, as if you type just google into a browser it goes to the http://www.google.com website?
How the hell are they allowed to do this???
Luke I think it likey you have something installed on your system …
Luke - alternatively you are using Firefox, in which case it has a built in Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in the address bar. It’s very useful.
Firefox does it. Any plain text typed in the address bar of firefox will perform a google search and go to the first result.
Works for loads of things/companies.
“Oops”! Ha ha! I hate when sites like Google (this being an example) and Bebo try to make their content humorous. If you upload something on Bebo, it says “This will take a moment, could be two, even three1″ It isn’t really funny. This is another example where Google try to make it humorous but really, it’s not.
Firefox’s description of what a Cookie is “A delicious delicacy” - ha, ha - very funny.
Vger