[Gllug] IP address changes

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Richard Jones wrote:

> Mostly, I see it used to protect credit card transactions; people are
> concerned about hackers stealing their credit card numbers as they
> move through the network. By now it should be obvious that hackers
> don't steal credit card numbers one by one across the network; they
> steal them in bulk -- by the thousands or even millions -- by breaking
> into poorly protected networks.

This is true but more likely a cracker is going to attack a server on that 
network and, if possible, it will be the one that carries out the 
transactions or the database server if there is one.

Given how poorly many businesses maintain their servers it's no surprise 
as it only makes sense to maximum return on effort by attacking weak 
points.

Jason
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