Just spotted on CheapStingyBargains.com: “CompUSA.com has the Connect Computers 400GB Hard Drive for $100 after $130 instant savings w/ free shipping.” Update: Forget it. They sold out in a couple of hours. And there’s a small problem …
From my friend Keith Dawson on Slashdot: ID Thieves Target Smaller Businesses Posted by kdawson on 2006-09-28 11:27 from the cost-of-shopping-for-the-cheapest dept. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/28/1440256 wiredog writes, “The Washington Post writes about real-time credit-card theft from small merchants (registration required). An accompanying Security Fix blog commentary from Brian Krebs describes ‘…10 hours of lurking I did on a variety of underground chat and Web channels frequented by identity and credit card thieves. From that research, Security Fix confirmed recent data breaches at four online merchants that were unaware that hackers had broken into their databases until we contacted them.’ Lesson: Don’t buy online from the cheapest retailers. Guess where they are cutting costs to be the cheapest?” The article and blog commentary also cast doubt on the efficacy of online “hacker testing” services.
