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Those who sign up for a special Sony PlayStation-branded Visa card can now take advantage of a special $100 (around €75.98) discount on the PlayStation Vita Instant Game Collection Bundle that comes with the console.Customers will also get a 1-year subscription to PlayStation Plus, and much more. The PS Vita ha... |
1 May 2013
07:56 GMT |
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Sports retailer Genesco, which operates over 2,400 stores in North America and Europe, has filed a lawsuit against Visa, blaming the company for the considerable penalties imposed on merchants and banks that suffer data breaches.
Genesco’s systems were hacked back in 2010. At the time, the company didn’t... |
12 March 2013
10:35 GMT |
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Apparently, Google is now in talks with payment processors like Visa and PayPal to cut off funds to pirate or illegal sites. The Telegraph says Google wants to kill these sites by making sure they can't get any money.
Any site deemed "illegal" would be a target as would any site that doesn't respond to le... |
19 February 2013
12:21 GMT |
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Around Christmas time, a cybercriminal group managed to steal $11 million (8.3 million EUR) in a couple of cleverly planned ATM heists. As a result of the incident, Visa released an alert to all card issuers.
Brian Krebs reports that the first attack took place on Christmas Eve. The crooks used prepaid debit cards a... |
6 February 2013
10:38 GMT |
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Today, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced that its solution for enabling mobile payments via NFC had been approved by Visa.
RIM came up with a Secure Element Manager (SEM) solution for NFC (Near Field Communication) mobile payments that should be adopted by wireless carriers interested in offe... |
16 January 2013
16:01 GMT |
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The Redmond-based technology titan Microsoft is now planning to hire more foreign workers because it “cannot find qualified Americans” to fill in open positions. The company has already asked the US government to approve a new visa program that would allow up to 20,000 foreign workers to be employed in t... |
26 November 2012
03:31 GMT |
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The Redmond-based technology giant Microsoft has about 6,000 job openings at this moment, but it claims that the available labor pool in the Unites States forces it to look on other continents for new employees.
What’s more, Microsoft emphasized that the Congress should issue more high-tech visas for foreign I... |
1 October 2012
04:25 GMT |
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A malicious email is trying to trick recipients into thinking that their payment card details “are at risk” after Visa and MasterCard, in association with Cryptico, have identified a security incident.
Some cybercriminals think that if they compose a malicious message and use the names of multiple renow... |
27 September 2012
15:21 GMT |
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At the end of August, Visa revealed its plans to introduce a new point-to-point encryption ((P2PE) service called Visa Merchant Data Secure. The service – which will be made available at the beginning of 2013 – will aim at securing payment terminals and other critical systems across the industry. The P2... |
13 September 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Most internauts may have noticed that the sites of The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks have been disrupted as a result of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, but those aren’t the only attacks launched recently. UGNazi hackers have also been up to their usual shenanigans, sending large numbers of pac... |
17 May 2012
04:18 GMT |
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You may be wondering what Visa, MasterCard, Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo have in common. The short answer, as revealed by security experts, is a peer-to-peer (P2P) variant of the Zeus platform.
For each one of these combinations, cybercriminals have made a clever scenario, Trusteer reports.
When targeting Fa... |
15 May 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Visa and Samsung have just announced that the Galaxy S III will be the official Olympic Games phone during the London 2012 Games. Samsung Galaxy S III comes equipped with Near Field Communication (NFC) payment capability and will be used in NFC trials at the Olympics. It appears that a limited edition showcase devi... |
9 May 2012
05:43 GMT |
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The 1.5 million individuals and companies that may be affected by the data breach that targeted the payment processor Global Payments should be on the lookout for malicious messages or phone calls that purport to come from Visa or other financial institution.
According to Visa representatives, most of the scammers c... |
12 April 2012
08:59 GMT |
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Researchers warn that even though companies that offer virtual wallets for mobile phones are putting great efforts into ensuring that they’re secure, there are still some flaws that make these money bags a tempting target for thieves.
McAfee’ Mobile Security Researcher Jimmy Shah informs that organizatio... |
4 April 2012
05:37 GMT |
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Yesterday we’ve learned that MasterCard and Visa were alerting banks that a major processor has suffered a data breach. As it turns out, the victim of the breach is Global Payments Inc., a company that provides electronic transaction services worldwide.
In a press release made a few hours ago, Global Payments ... |
31 March 2012
03:53 GMT |
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Financial services companies MasterCard and Visa are warning banks about a data breach that affected a credit card processor from the US sometime between January 21, 2012, and February 25, 2012.
According to security journalist Brian Krebs, more than 10 million credit cards may be compromised as a result of the inci... |
30 March 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Chanel 4 News and ViaForensics continued their investigation into Visa contactless credit cards and as it turns out, not only Barclays customers are exposed to malicious operations.
Further analysis made on contactless credit cards revealed that all Visa cards are susceptible to the attack method presented a few day... |
30 March 2012
04:29 GMT |
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New Medfield chips and acceleration in 14nm processor development are just one facet of Intel's effort to secure a portion of the mobile device market.
The Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker has also announced a partnership with Visa inc., one that will benefit developed and developing countries.
Accord... |
28 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Big corporations really don't know when to stop, don't they? They complain so much about so-called liberals and socialists picking on them, yet they make it so easy. The latest example is the ban they placed on the Discovery Channel, from airing an episode of MythBusters that dealt with RFID chips. Hosts J... |
4 February 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Trend Micro researchers discovered that the technology behind the Verified by Visa trademark is much more unsecure than anyone would believe and not a coding error is to blame, instead it’s a design flaw that could be taken advantage of by cyber and non-cyber criminals. The 3 Domain Secure (3DS) security proto... |
2 December 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Australia could become the first country to be completely Kim Kardashian-free. After three separate incidents which would imply she lied to authorities about her visa, she's been put on the Immigration Department watch list pending investigation. The Daily Telegraph reports that authorities from the Immigration ... |
2 December 2011
03:54 GMT |
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A study shows that 40,000 small and medium-sized companies in Australia have inadequate security measures implemented into their bank transaction mechanisms.
In an interview given to SC Magazine by Visa's country risk manager, Ian McKindley reveals that most smaller companies have close to none security polic... |
23 September 2011
08:16 GMT |
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A new application and service is now available for the owners of a Nexus S 4G smartphone on Sprint's airwaves in the United States, namely Google Wallet, which offers them the possibility to replace their over-stuffed wallets with their mobile phone.
Announced with support for Citi and MasterCard in the beg... |
20 September 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Isis, the joint venture between U.S.-based major carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless, has just announced that it has signed an agreement with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express to bring mobile payment to U.S. consumers and merchants.
Isis mobile payment service is expected to be launched in ... |
20 July 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Credit card donations to WikiLeaks were briefly re-opened last Thursday, but lasted only 24 hours with VISA quickly blocking the ban evasion.A month ago, DataCell, the Iceland-based company that used to collect donations on behalf of WikiLeaks, warned VISA and MasterCard that it plans to file a complaint with the Eur... |
11 July 2011
05:18 GMT |
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DataCell, the company that used to handle donations for WikiLeaks, is preparing to sue Visa and MasterCard and file a complaint against them with EU regulators alleging violations of competition laws.In December 2010 Visa and MasteCard ordered a Danish payment processing company called Teller to stop providing servic... |
4 July 2011
13:25 GMT |
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The Icelandic parliament is considering revoking the operating licenses of Visa and Mastercard after the two credit card companies banned donations to WikiLeaks.The parliamentary general committee met last Friday to discus whether Visa and Mastercard has the legal right to impose such a restriction on consumers and p... |
14 December 2010
08:44 GMT |
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As expetected, following Visa’s decision to block WikiLeaks donations, Anonymous launched DDoS attacks against its website, but the hacktivist group faces troubles of its own.It seems that the virtual war between Anonymous and organizations acting against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, continues.It s... |
9 December 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Visa is introducing a new tool designed to simplify online shopping and add a social component to it. It’s clearly not the first company, big or small, to try to do this, but its offering, Rightcliq, sounds interesting enough. Rightclicq is a browser add-on that promises to make it easier and faster to shop usi... |
2 August 2010
10:14 GMT |
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New features introduced by the Paypal Adaptive Payment API will allow web developers to integrate PayPal e-payment methods without forcing users in creating or using a PayPal account.The feature called, Guest Payments, permits developers to quickly process credit card payments in the same secure format as before. The... |
26 June 2010
08:35 GMT |
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With a gross estimation of 25% of all US online money transfers going through one of CyberSource's services, the company's management opted to sell their stock to Visa Inc., a worldwide known credit card company.CyberSource is mainly known for running Authorize.Net, but has a big presence in developing and ... |
21 April 2010
10:28 GMT |
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PayPal, eBay's payment platform, will have a run at its position as the leading online money transfer system with the launch of WePay, a well financed California start-up. This is possible mainly because of the new group payment features and other security and accessibility options for its clients.The service sp... |
2 April 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Heartland Payment Systems announced a settlement with Visa, which involves funding $60 million for the reimbursement of credit card issuers affected by the data breach the firm discovered in 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, Heartland will provide $59.22 million and Visa will cover the rest from fines previousl... |
11 January 2010
10:01 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that it has entered into an agreement with VISA in order to offer a new debit card co-branded with the EA Sports logo that will allow those who use it to get bonus points that can then be employed to purchase some of the videogames released by the publisher.The official name of the produ... |
9 December 2009
02:29 GMT |
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Self-confessed ethical hacking outfit Team Elite has recently reported cross-site scripting (XSS) weaknesses in not one, but four different Visa websites. All of the vulnerabilities allowed attackers to prompt arbitrary JavaScript alerts. The XSS vulnerabilities were reported by a grey-hat hacker calling himself Met... |
27 May 2009
08:17 GMT |
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A new report, released by an appointed panel of the non-partisan National Research Council, shows that the way in which America's scientific secrets are kept is no longer secure, now that the Soviet Union is gone and the term “enemies” can designate virtually anyone. Additionally, the report underlin... |
9 January 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Visa seems to believe that there is still plenty of room for improvement when it comes to its mobile banking, so, by partnering up with Google's Android OS, it is hoping to make you feel even more secure using their mobile transactioning system. As a result, now all Android operated devices are to be functional ... |
16 December 2008
10:24 GMT |
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Today in New York, Visa Inc. and Nokia have announced plans for an innovative payment method. Visa payment and payment related services like contactless and remote payments, money transfer, alerts and notifications, will become possible solely using Nokia's mobile phones. The service is expected to become availa... |
25 September 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Following last week's report that MasterCard owners had been targeted by a phishing scheme attempting to steal their private financial details, it was only a matter of time until Visa's consumers joined the club. Security company Sophos today reports that a new phishing scam was detected, this time targetin... |
16 April 2008
09:23 GMT |
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TJX Companies Inc. and Visa Inc. have today announced a partnership in order to reimburse nearly $41 million, a huge amount of money, which is supposed to be received by the banks affected by the January data loss. Let me refresh your memory: back in January 2007, TJS made a shocking announcement; some attackers mana... |
4 December 2007
06:37 GMT |
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Although cards (or plastic money, as they're sometimes called) have been around for quite a while, there are certain situations in which the user of such a payment method is not exactly eager to use it, due to several reasons (as for example, when they don't feel quite secure about the location where said t... |
28 September 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Cyber-crooks use all sorts of methods to steal one person's data or identity. They will go as far as pretending to be high-profile companies, in order to trick users. Now they pretend to be representatives of Visa and say that you have been enrolled in a program, then ask you for some data of course, it's ... |
25 September 2007
08:17 GMT |
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A partnership of large proportions has been built to introduce the Visa mobile platform in Taiwan. Nokia has decided to cooperate with Visa International, as well as with Chunghwa Telecom, Chinatrust Commercial Bank (CTCB), for launching a landmark trial for the starters.The trial will be conducted over a period of s... |
20 September 2007
05:10 GMT |
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Consumer mobile payments and services will be tested in the near future by means of an extensive mobile pilot program from Visa USA. The results will help the company better understand the way in which people use their mobile phones and how that can be matched with payment services.The mobile pilot will take place in... |
28 June 2007
03:36 GMT |
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Blizzard and First Bankcard have announced "World of WarCraft Rewards Visa." Blizzard calls it "The Card That Pays You To Play," and with good reason too because it will come with a free month of World of WarCraft subscription and 1% all purchases made will be converted to WoW game time, MegaGames says. More than th... |
7 May 2007
08:56 GMT |
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During the CTIA Wireless trade show, Kyocera Wireless has demonstrated a prototype handset and devices to showcase The VISA platform using NFC technology. Kyocera has teamed up with Visa in order to demonstrate how mobile payment through NFC technology works and mobile phones can be turned into a payment solution, re... |
4 April 2007
03:06 GMT |
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In a keynote, during the CTIA Wireless conference, Visa USA President and CEO Philip Coughlan detailed the steps that Visa is taking to advance mobile payments. According to him, mobile payment is currently at a critical moment in its development and it would take close collaboration between wireless and payment card... |
31 March 2007
04:06 GMT |
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