Hacker Safe' Seal Under Attack Following Site Breach
(PC World Canada)

More than 80,000 Web sites worldwide display a small green logo that proclaims them to be "Hacker Safe."

But the company behind this security seal, ScanAlert, found itself on the defensive recently after technology retailer Geeks.com, which carries the seal, warned some customers that their personal and credit card data may have been compromised by hackers.

"[The] seals are completely ludicrous," says David Kennedy of Secure-State. Upon a request for testing from the owners of ten Hacker Safe sites, his company was able to break into and easily access financial and customer data from nine of the ten sites.