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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

CheckFree Warns 5 Million Customers After Hack

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I received a couple emails in the last few weeks from CheckFree customers that had read my postings about the Fiserv DNS hack. One such ema...

Got Hacked? Bank on It

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In December, I posted twice about Fiserv 's CheckFree Hack whereby their  domain name was "webjacked."  (see: CheckFree Not Ha...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Anti-Skimming Recommendations from SEPA

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I've covered card skimming on this blog extensively in 2008.  There's a big problem in Europe, where they have instituted EMV, with ...

Twitter Outwitted

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First there was Facebook , and now Twitter users have been lured into a phishing  scheme causing some users to give up their Twitter usernam...

The Glitch That Stole Christmas?

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ONE-THIRD OF ONLINE SHOPPERS ENCOUNTERED GLITCHES THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, NEW GUIDANCE SURVEY REVEALS Some 64 Percent Shopped Online Without In...

Encrypted Email for Donors/Client Info

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The " e " in e -mail now stands for " e ncrypted?" Michele Donohue writes for The NonProfitTimes about a new Nevada (and...

Barclay Up the Wrong Tree?

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From what I've read the jurys still out on whether NFC is secure.  WEP wasn't.  We'll see. Barclayscard is smart...they're ...

E-Commerce Not Safe in Web Browser Followup

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SSL Crisis Averted -- For Now - DarkReading Last Friday,  I posted about a "serious vulnerability" within ALL web browsers and ...
Monday, January 5, 2009

Global Smart Card Outlook

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Smart card applications make transactions safer New Dehli, India, Jan. 05, 2009 -- RNCOS in its new research report " Global Smart Card...

Mob Implicated in Credit Card Scheme

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Armenian Mob Imiplicated (sic) in Credit Card Scheme - beaconcast.com Don't know if they spelled it wrong or if because they were illega...

Macy's Multiple Debits = Multiple Questions?

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Evan Shuman (and Fred J. Aun) wrote an interesting story regarding the recent "multiple debits" charged to 8000 Macy's debit c...

Skim Through this Card Skimming Article

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In addition to the fact that E-Commerce is outpacing bricks and mortar in several sectors, (see previous story) there is a mounting problem ...

E-Commerce Outperforms Bricks-and-Mortar Across Many Sectors

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"eCommerce continues to grow says "JPMorgan Analyst Imran Khan   as he pointed out in a research note that while U.S. retail sales...

MC inC: "MasterCard inControl" of Orbiscom

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After RBS implemented a commercial application called "MC inC," a collaboration between Orbiscom and MC, they have decided to purc...
Friday, January 2, 2009

Graphic: Soft vs. Hardware

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400+ Breaches: Software Responsible for: 92% Hardware: only 1% According to a Trustwave review of 400+ breaches, 67% were from POS Softwa...

Browsers & E-Commerce Don't Mix

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As the name implies, "Browsers" are for "browsing" when you're done, and it comes time to make that online purchas...