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US auto parts store spills data to hackers

Märthöll

As expected 

Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 22:25 GMT

Flame

I am not surprised. uptime.netcraft.com shows that www.advanceautoparts.com runs Microsoft software.

kain preacher

Right 

Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 23:47 GMT

And unix server would of never been hacked. Apache is fool proof.

Anonymous Coward

Jacked Off 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 06:20 GMT

Coat

I imagine customers will be going 'spare' until they find out who took 'part' in this 'bald' faced 'driveby' hack!

James O'Brien

@Kain Preacher 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 08:12 GMT

Alert

Heh nice point of the finger if *nix was the only one that had 99% market share, we would always be hearing about it which would kill the Mac FanBois' dead in their tracks.

/mines the one with the fifth hanging out of the pocket

Anonymous Coward

@James O'Brien 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 09:39 GMT

What?

Is that an empty fifth?

Ian Ferguson

Was it a coding error? 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 11:55 GMT

Dead Vulture

I wonder if somebody forgot to open their tags correctly, meaning underlying code was displayed on the page?

Something like: the firm a href="http://www.advanceautoparts.com/creditsecurity/default.asp" target="_blank">said on Monday

kain preacher

@James O'Brien 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 14:48 GMT

Until you know what the exact exploit you cant blame windows. Remember the article about abunch of Apache severs that were compromised ??

SO right after the back to blame MS is stupid till you know the facts.

My point is if it was an Linux or UNIX server people here would hold back blame till they knew the exploit.

kain preacher

@ac 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 14:58 GMT

a fifth.

American slang for 1/5th of a gallon of liquor. 750 ml

used as such. I want a fifth of gin

Martin Simpson

@James O'Brien 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 15:26 GMT

I think you missed the sarcasm is Kain's post....

Maybe now is the time to dismount your Microsoft High Horse :)

James O'Brien

@ EVERYONE 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 20:22 GMT

Stop

You guys all missed the point of my post. It was not to bash Kain it was actually intended as a compliment. I'll be the first to admit M$ has its problems and that the only reason I use it is for gaming. As for *nix and all the other OS's what I was getting at was to say this, *IF* OSX or *nix had a 99% market share we would hear about all of them a bit more. More viruses, more exploits found more of everything.

Unfortunately they dont have the market share. Which is why everyone is so keen to spout off at the mouth about M$ because we hear about them more then the rest usually.

I think the sarcasm was missed from me due to faulty use of punctuation.

kain preacher

Sorry 

Posted Wednesday 2nd April 2008 23:06 GMT

Sarcasm does not always translate well on the net. Takes swig of corn liquor