Re: Secure Shopping PHP MySQL??

On 9/7/00 5:46 PM this was written: > I am using Sybase SQL-AnyWhere (via ODBC) for user authentication and I'm > trying to make this as secure as possible. Is it possible to read the > database over the web? How imporntant is it to encrypt the information in > the database? The database is running on the server (Win NT - Apache). It's extrememly important for the data to be encrypted in the database. I don't know if you remember all those reports a year or so back that mentioned all these online companies that had credit card information stored and hackers got into their systems and stole credit card numbers. I am not going to speculate on which sites because I can't remember and I don't want to name a site it didn't happen to. Either way the problem happened because: 1. not enough security on their db's 2. the cc information wasn't encrypted within the database so the numbers were vulnerable. Many poeple believe that just because the information is in a password-protected database that it's secure and it's not. Encryption is important, especially if you're reading the information across the web in a PHP/ASP connection to the database. -- Thomas Deliduka IT Manager ------------------------- New Eve Media The Solution To Your Internet Angst http://www.neweve.com/