Central Florida Motorsports BEWARE!

[thecollector]

Placed an online order at central Florida motorsports for some parts for my focus. The order was processed fast and the parts I received promptly and correctly. They were also of good quality, installed easily and performed very well. The warning is due to the website. After sending my order thru a few days later I had $500 in fraud on my credit card. The card was new and had never been used anywhere else. If you need to place an I'd recommend phone submission.

[redfirepearlgt]

You may want to run malwarebytes and/or other maliscious software removal software on your PC. There could be some maliscious software on your hard drive that caused the issue. Heart Bleed bug is a current piece of maliscious software that gives false indication that you are on a secure website connection when in fact you are not. Do some research on that as well. May larger companies are verifying that they are free of the Heart Bleed bug and will say so.

I no longer buy on line purchases.

Glad you were smart to catch it as soon as you did.

[thecollector]

Thanks for the idea. I used a nexus 7 to place the order. If I restore it to factory settings would it clear malware?

[redfirepearlgt]

Thanks for the idea. I used a nexus 7 to place the order. If I restore it to factory settings would it clear malware?

On that I do not know. I don't use tablets or smart phones. They are very prone to being cracked by hacks and ID thieves. There was just another issue thos morning with these portable devices. They are somehow being hijacked by hacks who somehow reset the unit and lock it down with their own passowrd offering to return it to operational status for $100. So IMHO using a smart phone or tablet for any form of transaction or access to CC's bank data, etc is even more risky than using PayPAL online.

In the end you have to trust someone regardless of how a tranaction is done. Even in person it is possible for someone to swipe your information from you in the blink of an eye. Not as likely but still possible. So it boils dow nto how much risk you are willing to take for the luxury of ease of transaction.

[cstreu1026]

Even paying cash has risks.

[05yellowgt]

You may want to run malwarebytes and/or other maliscious software removal software on your PC. There could be some maliscious software on your hard drive that caused the issue. Heart Bleed bug is a current piece of maliscious software that gives false indication that you are on a secure website connection when in fact you are not. Do some research on that as well. May larger companies are verifying that they are free of the Heart Bleed bug and will say so.

I no longer buy on line purchases.

Glad you were smart to catch it as soon as you did.
The Heartbleed exploit has nothing to do with malware,viruses, or otherwise on end user devices. It is an exploit that is present on the most commonly used encyption service on the internet. It allows a would be hacker to send a series of commands which can result in the encryption key getting sent to the hacker. With that, they can de-encrypt the data data stream and see the traffic in plain txt. This means that your session could be monitored and your personal data could then get mined.


Tablets and smart phones are a degree safer than windows based PC's. The biggest dangers are when the devices are "rooted". This means that you are cracking the device to give root level access. This is the same as giving someone the admin password to your PC. They can then change any software and configs. This alone normally isn't a danger, unless you are loading some hacked apps, generally through a process called side loading. This is where you manually upload the install file and bypass the app store.

[05yellowgt]

The best advice here is to be sure to use a credit card when doing any online shopping. All of the major card providers are looking very closely for any suspicious activity and will call you up any time they see something out of the ordinary in your purchasing patterns. A few months before the Target breach was announced I got a call from Chase Bank asking me about $700 charges at a sports memorabilia website. I told them it wasn't me, they canceled the charge, and issued me a new credit card number. The same thing happening with a debit card can still be resolved, but your cash is unavailable for a lot longer period of time.

[redfirepearlgt]

The Heartbleed exploit has nothing to do with malware,viruses, or otherwise on end user devices. It is an exploit that is present on the most commonly used encyption service on the internet. It allows a would be hacker to send a series of commands which can result in the encryption key getting sent to the hacker. With that, they can de-encrypt the data data stream and see the traffic in plain txt. This means that your session could be monitored and your personal data could then get mined.


Tablets and smart phones are a degree safer than windows based PC's. The biggest dangers are when the devices are "rooted". This means that you are cracking the device to give root level access. This is the same as giving someone the admin password to your PC. They can then change any software and configs. This alone normally isn't a danger, unless you are loading some hacked apps, generally through a process called side loading. This is where you manually upload the install file and bypass the app store.

Thanks. That clears up a lot on the heartbleed. I thought it was like an app that got downloaded on a device or something that uploaded piggy backed on a piece of freeware to your PC. That is even more so why I won't purchase on line any longer.

So how are smartphones and related devices safer? I hear every month or so about people using smartphones to access their bank accounts or downloading something in the form of an app that loads spyware onto their phone and that there is little to no protection for these devices available. Could you explain better John? Just wanting to better understand how this is in contrast to what I hear on the news when these alerts become present. GRANTED NEWS IS NEWS, BUT ONE HAS TO ASK IN ORDER TO VALIDATE OR REFUTE WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO OTHERWISE BE FACTUAL.

[mustangjon]

If a phone isn't cracked in theory the only software and apps that can be loaded is from trusted sources. The latest thing you heard chad was people setting up wifi hotspots then getting people who steal hotspots that aren't secured. So if you are in apt complex and a neighbor has wifi that's free for anyone to access they can backtrack through your phone since your on their network

[redfirepearlgt]

Gotcha. Appreciate that.

[05yellowgt]

If a phone isn't cracked in theory the only software and apps that can be loaded is from trusted sources. The latest thing you heard chad was people setting up wifi hotspots then getting people who steal hotspots that aren't secured. So if you are in apt complex and a neighbor has wifi that's free for anyone to access they can backtrack through your phone since your on their network

This is the big thing now. People will spoof Starbucks or other popular wifi hotspots and then doing a packet log of your internet traffic to steal passwords and such

[redfirepearlgt]

Is this how they are resetting phones and locking them down and then texting the person a ransom note to unlock it???Heard that one on the news this morning. Doesn't mean they got it right but....???

And how does one protect themselves from "spoofing" scams? Other than not to use public wi-fi such as starbucks or else where?

[mustangjon]

Only use wifi you know are secured ask place of business router name and pw. Just like we had a punk kid next door to shop changing his wifi router to tirediscounters sucks ect so would show up when out customers searched but he had it protected so you couldn't get on was just using it to talk bad about us basically.

[redfirepearlgt]

I gotcha. Thanks.

[thecollector]

I will hand it to citicard- they refunded all the transactions within 7 days, sent me out new cards, and even waived that months payment since the acct was in dispute.