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Honeynet: Carders are Getting Bold
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-07-11

Credit card fraud "power users" with programming skills and no fear are making it easier for newbies to break into white collar crime, according to a report from the Honeynet Research Alliance this week.

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Honeynet: Carders are Getting Bold 2003-07-14
Anonymous
Correction: !cclimit command in bots is nothing but a fake command channel owners get to get more people in their channels.

Another Correction: !chk command is also fake as those kind of bots known as CHECK BOTS don't work anymore after authorize.net discovered the bug bot makers were using to ch...

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i read the news today, oh boy .. 2003-07-14
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hackers? on IRC? *trading* things? A1, above the fold, in big 'ol KENNEDY SHOT font!

but really now. i'm no big expert on credit card fraud, but i suspect that the bots tell you the spending limit by looking at the numbers that make up the card. this *can* be done, with some, to an extent, to d...

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Honeynet: Carders are Getting Bold 2003-07-14
herbal1zr
you guys needed a honeypot to figure that out ? get with the program whitehats...

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Honeynet: Carders are Getting Bold 2003-07-15
Bob Radvanovsky
You forgot to mention about emerging "E-Commerce" solutions, some of which are Open Source/Open Systems solutions, that offer very little security to protect credit card numbers. One such location provides real/live e-commerce web sites that are using the *default* methods of access, which is *clea...

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Honeynet: Carders are Getting Bold 2005-09-21
reronic (1 replies)
You guys are complete idiots... those bots are completey fake and like said above are used to lure more people into the channel. to get the real numbers you need to trade some valuable or same. Whoever wrote this article is a complete moron. Wake up to the world of mirc trading....

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Re: Honeynet: Carders are Getting Bold 2006-08-23
Anonymous
"Whoever wrote this article is a complete moron"... Kevin Poulsen a complete moron? Kevin Poulsen, the man that scammed KIIS-FM out of a couple of porsche's? Heh. Dumb article, but not author...

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