CISSP Question of the Week: Customer Credit Card Information

CISSP Question of the Week courtesy of Transcender Labs. Your company has an e-commerce site that is publicly accessible over the Internet. The e-commerce site accepts credit card information from a customer and then processes the customer’s transaction. Which standard or law would apply for this type of data? A. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 B. […]

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When Your Website Goes Dark: Tales of DNS Malfunctions

I was working at a start-up company that had grown from a dozen people to about 80 employees in a couple of years. It was a busy time, Web traffic was picking up every day. And then one Wednesday, we noticed a dramatic drop in incoming email, and the hits on the website dropped like a rock. But not rock bottom. Frantically, I tested from the outside and inside. Everything was fine.

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