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Four Major Airlines Don't Use HTTPS, Expose Customer Credit Card Numbers

  • 9 December 2015
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By Catalin Cimpanu    9 Dec 2015
 
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16 companies in total disclose credit card information

 
Research that investigated the state of mobile apps and websites discovered that 16 major companies around the world, including four major airlines, left customer data exposed when clients were making commercial transactions.
 
The problem at the core of this issue is the lack of HTTPS encryption for the mobile version of a company's website and its mobile applications. HTTPS is often thought off when it comes to protecting e-commerce operations on regular websites but left to the side when it comes to mobile apps and websites.
 
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Lack of concern and urgency to protect their custom, may result in a loss of revenue??? Customers are the bread and butter of any company

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