Online Insecurity & Trickery

Three stories regarding online security today:

1. Jen from Hostasaurus describes an incident where her gmail account was improperly accessed for use with Google checkout
2. BoingBoing gives an account of Astroglide exposing their customers, er, preferences by putting confidential information in web accessible directories. The wonderfully named Homeland Stupidity has more details. Needless to say, it’s never a good idea to store data in a public area.
3. BoingBoing also covers an issue where online buyers are slipping orders past unwary online stores using some address trickery. You might want to make your shipping department aware of this one.