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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Business origins - MalWareBytes - interesting read Post 303037136 by Neo on Wednesday 24th of July 2019 12:25:20 PM

07-24-2019

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Yeah, so as a long time cyber security person, I have never been impressed with companies like MalwareBytes who profit off the insecurity of Windows.

I'm not accusing any company of wrong doings, but there have been many scenarios in circles of cyber security professionals where antivirus companies conspire (or work) with malware creators to have malware released into the wild and for "an antivirus company" to already have an antiviral update(s) ready.

The entire ecosystem is broken; so personally, I am not impressed with the MalwareBytes story. I do not trust any of these companies, since they are not accountable and transparent to the public.

The real "success story" would be for governments or regulators to mandate that these software companies secure their products and be responsible for consumer losses and damages, or to otherwise regulate these greedy high tech companies who are only concerned with quarterly profit reports to their stockholders. Ditto for the new breed of information brokers like FB.

The entire cybersecurity industry is a "self-licking ice cream cone", where the more malware there is, the more money anti-malware companies make. It's really dystopian.

Soon (not sure the exact time), it will be the same in AI. There will be an entire industry built around securing us from AI, hackers attacking AI, AI gone bad, etc. It's really a dystopian future where tech creates more software which needs "protectors" to protect us from the harm it will do. Meanwhile, the huge tech giants get richer, the land costs rise in high tech areas, etc.

It's corporate greed out of control, really.

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business::onlinepayment::openecho

OpenECHO(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     OpenECHO(3pm)

NAME

       Business::OnlinePayment::OpenECHO - ECHO backend module for Business::OnlinePayment

SYNOPSIS

	 use Business::OnlinePayment;

	 ####
	 # One step transaction, the simple case.
	 ####

	 my $tx = new Business::OnlinePayment("OpenECHO");
	 $tx->content(
	     type	    => 'VISA',
	     login	    => '1234684752',
	     password	    => '43400210',
	     action	    => 'Normal Authorization',
	     description    => 'Business::OnlinePayment test',
	     amount	    => '49.95',
	     invoice_number => '100100',
	     customer_id    => 'jsk',
	     first_name     => 'Tofu',
	     last_name	    => 'Beast',
	     address	    => '123 Anystreet',
	     city	    => 'Anywhere',
	     state	    => 'UT',
	     zip	    => '84058',
	     card_number    => '4005550000000019',
	     expiration     => '08/06',
	     cvv2	    => '1234', #optional
	     referer	    => 'http://valid.referer.url/',
	 );
	 $tx->submit();

	 if($tx->is_success()) {
	     print "Card processed successfully: ".$tx->authorization."
";
	 } else {
	     print "Card was rejected: ".$tx->error_message."
";
	 }

SUPPORTED TRANSACTION TYPES

       CC, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover

       Content required: type, login, password, action, amount, first_name, last_name, card_number, expiration.

       Check

       Content required: type, login, password, action, amount, first_name, last_name, account_number, routing_code, bank_name. (...more)

PREREQUISITES

	 URI::Escape
	 Tie::IxHash

	 Net::SSLeay _or_ ( Crypt::SSLeay and LWP )

DESCRIPTION

       For detailed information see Business::OnlinePayment.

AUTHOR

       Original Author Michael Lehmkuhl <michael@electricpulp.com>

       Special Thanks Jim Darden <jdarden@echo-inc.com> Dan Browning <db@kavod.com>

       Business::OnlinePayment Implementation Ivan Kohler <ivan-openecho@420.am>

SEE ALSO

       perl(1). Business::OnlinePayment.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-01							     OpenECHO(3pm)