http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/st...=1s84zoc9cujcs





IMO, thats not very smart of Visa to talk about that because its like holding a piece of food over a starving rabid dog. If you tell Anonymous that its impossible to hack your servers, they WILL figure out a way to do it. There isnt a single piece of IT hardware or software that is NOT unhackable. Everything has vulnerabilities somewhere.

 

If it's not on the internet that only means you need an inside job to crash it. I wouldn't go bragging about it either!

 

a DoS attack would be somewhat easy to notice.. with a bunch of people with computers sneaking in to flood data into an internal network. "Hey bob, why do we have 500 people in the lobby?"

 

See this is what happens when they can't hack visa.



MasterCard, VISA Warn of Processor Breach

 

Visa is fairly big in the whole PCI Compliance realm. However, I'm not really sure what data they hold. Visa is a trademark, a marketing image. The data is most certainly held by the banks themselves.



Transactions on a Citi Bank Visa credit card are not held by Visa. Well, that's my assumption at least.



"Visa does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers; rather, Visa provides financial institutions with Visa-branded payment products that they then use to offer credit, debit, prepaid and cash-access programs to their customers"

 

anyone remember the last time someone bragged about something being unhackable? i think it was when blu-ray first came out, sony went on about how it would NEVER get hacked! yeah took less than 24 hours after the first blu-rays hit the market.

 

It reminds me of Life Lock, the company that supposedly protects your identity. The CEO put his Social Security number on the side of their trucks and dared people to steal his identity, saying Life Lock would protect it.



Guess what happened?



His identity was stolen 13 times in 2007 and 2008.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeLock