More Worldpay problems

[rmladden]

A denial of service attack requires planning to handle, along with a lot of hardware. It is not the kind of thing that is easily dealt with in a crisis.

No one will bother attacking mylittlestore.com, but a big PSP is a target, especially if they have an unhappy customer or handle payments for a controversial group.

[jxm28788]

I've enabled Paypal this afternon....was thinking about it for a while, already got the verified account, and Paypal has now lauched UK Paypal so the seller protection is improved

So is that just a case of signing up at the paypal site, selecting paypal as an extra payment option in business settings, entering the merchant ID and then that's it? The customer just gets another payment choice and it takes them of to the paypal site to pay? and the paypal site returns them to the receipts screen?

Or is it more complicated than that?

[pollygordon]

Well, I spoke to WP again and they confirm that a Denial of Service attack appears to be the problem.

They are going to be working through the night, but it doesn't look good.

[pinbrook]

you will need to get your paypal account verified to be taken seriously.

If you have online banking this only takes 2 days

[rmladden]

It has made the news. See http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/33777.html

[wfl]

There may be a positive side to this.

If it makes the mainstream news them perhaps more punters know who/what WorldPay is.

[Infolink]

I've been playing with Worldpay integration just recently, one of the pages they use gave me a fail message which gave me a laugh - since it was based around FormMail 1.6 - which is just about one of the most exploitable things out there.

Why the hell is a multinational company using a poorly written ultra exploitable free script that was written by a 15yr old!

Scary!

Phil

[pinbrook]

email harvesters can get their way into formmail.....

[Infolink]

Even more so on an early version like that - I think the last was 1.9s
Even Matt (the author) says it is rubbish these days!

working late again Jo?

Phil

[pinbrook]

Yes, working late......must stop soon, I'm in pain, I fell off my skateboard today and landed very heavily....nothing broken but alot of muscle ache and hurt pride.

I think I'll be working tomorrow on my bed, on my front with the laptop!!

[wfl]

For the last 15 minutes PayPal has been coming up with a busy message.

Do you suppose that the attack has moved on?

[Infolink]

LOL

I'll stick with things with a wider / longer wheelbase and an engine!

Try not to break anything - it hurts (speaking from experience) and is not good for business, I reckon when I bust up my leg it cost 40K + in lost profits and pretty destroyed what I had spent 10 years building up with me being off any inaccessible for about a year.

I've pulled it back now, but it's taken 18 months or so to get things back on an even keel.

Mainly doing actinic and a big PHP site right now!

Phil

[theglowcompany]

Not sure whats happening with online payments - we did receive a couple last night. But World Access- the manual online payment process is certainly down & so too is all else Worldpay

Yesterday we monitored anyone trying to order & called them as soon as we could - this minimised the losses but we are still unable to process these payments

After processing a payment of approx £2,300.00 on Friday & Worldpay charging us £100.00 to process this I must say i dont think we get our moneys worth!

Heads will roll at Worldpay - & so they should!

[I-CC]

An update from WorldPay is supposably coming out in the next half hour to an hour, but they still have not been able to remove the problem of the flood on there network and as such the meltdown effect on their servers remains, and yes you would have thought that they would have had separate networks to load balance this type of stuff and thus add a degree of protection, but not the case it seems.

[TiggyPig]

WorldPay just told me the same thing, supposed to be an update on the situation at 12:00.

Seems theyve been targetted similar to the email attcks we saw a few months ago hit Microsoft, they reckon this one came from Japan and caused loads and loads of false transactions to hit them and the servers have just overloaded.

They said they were 15% better today compared to yesterday and were working to resolve the problem.

Well, I've just opened up my PayPal account..... dunno about you..