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Cunning Aussie fix for online paymentsOnline shoppers in the UK will be able to pay direct from their online bank account rather than via a credit or debit card, thanks to a new service.… read more »
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9074339By Jaikumar VijayanApril 2, 2008 ComputerworldIn a security breach that sounds similar to the one disclosed by Hannaford Bros. Co. last month, the Okemo Mountain Resort ski area in Vermont announced this week that data from more than 46,000 credit and debit card transactions may have been compromised during a system intrusion over a 16-day period in February.Okemo said in a security advisory relea read more »
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Security managers often describe their efforts to protect corporate data from being compromised as a full-fledged battle of wits against cybercrooks who are continually arming themselves with innovative tools and methods of attack. read more »
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Beware of Belgians bearing card codesWe see a lot of lip service paid to the importance of complying with payment card industry standards when merchants accept credit and debit cards. But it seems plenty of websites still can't be bothered to follow the rules, which are designed to protect their customers against fraud and identity theft.… read more »
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Sick as a parrotCoventry City fans are worried about the security of a cashless payment card introduced at the football club's Ricoh Arena stadium this season.… read more »
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Almost 99,000 cards affectedAlmost 99,000 payment cards used by people shopping at Forever 21 stores may have been lifted over a four-year period by people linked to the heist of 45.6 million payment cards from customers from stores owned by TJX Companies.… read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:04:22 -0500 (CDT)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/forever_21_breach/By Dan Goodin in San FranciscoThe Register17th September 2008Almost 99,000 payment cards used by people shopping at Forever 21 stores may have been lifted over a four-year period by people linked to the heist of 45.6 million payment cards from customers from stores owned by TJX Companies.On Friday, the company issued a statement on its website that said it learned read more »
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Banks build one-time generator into plasticVisa cards with a built in one-time code generator are to be trialled by four European banks. The technology is designed to tackle the growing problem of online credit card fraud.… read more »
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Visa Inc. on Monday dramatically expanded its credit and debit card security requirements to retailers in Europe, an unexpected move that could be a financial boon to security auditing companies, but a huge cost for European merchants already feeling the pinch from the global financial crisis. The new payment card industry (PCI) mandates (PDF) that certain on- and offline European retailers stop storing the data read when the customer's credit or debit card is swiped...Please click on the title to continue read more »
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Your good name, our rogue serversOnline payment service CheckFree lost control of at least two of its domains on Tuesday in an attack that sent customers to servers run by a notorious crime gang believed to be based in Eastern Europe.… read more »
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Hackers on Tuesday hijacked the Web site CheckFree.com, one of the largest online bill payment companies, redirecting an unknown number of visitors to a Web address that tried to install malicious software on visitors' computers, the company said today. The attack, first reported by The Register, a security news Web site, began in the early morning hours of Dec. 2, when Checkfree's home page and the customer login page were redirected to a server in...Please click on the title to continue reading this entr read more »
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