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Bank Intros Deposit-Check Feature with iPhone App

USAA, a privately held bank and insurance company, has updated its iPhone application this week to introduce a check deposit feature. Using the app, customers can simply take a snapshot of both sides of a check. USAA claims that by using this method the process of depositing a check is done completely electronically....

11 August 2009
04:31 GMT

Activists Persuade Banks Not to Fund the Coal Industry

After Bush and the EPA made the coal mining industry a going-away present, in the bill that allowed it to dump debris from its mountaintop exploitations – in other words, the sites where they blew the top of mountains and picked the coal that came out – activists from several environmental groups managed ...

9 December 2008
05:54 GMT

Bank Manager Conned After Identity Theft

The CEO of the fourth largest bank in the UK discovered an identity theft that cost him several thousands of pounds, as the Daily Mail reports. Andy Hornby was on vacation when a person in the staff of HBOS, the bank he manages, told him that his account had been frozen, because of some unusual transactions that had ...

22 August 2008
05:43 GMT

Sophisticated Phishing Scam Hunting ANZ Bank Clients

It's no surprise that phishers take over bank clients because this is the most common way to steal financial information, bank account details and other sensitive data. However, phishers use more and more sophisticated techniques which could simply trick their targets and turn them into victims. A few days ago, ...

27 May 2008
03:49 GMT

Legitimate Bank Email Used in Phishing Scam

Today's phishers have pretty advanced techniques and today's report comes to support this statement. According to Port Clinton News Herald, a phisher used an email account belonging to First National Bank of Bellevue in order to send phishing emails to its customers. As usual, the main goal of the scam was ...

26 May 2008
03:47 GMT

Banks No Longer Attractive, Hackers Now Targeting Restaurants

Usually, hackers interested in financial information attack banks or financial institutions, which could give them easy access to bank accounts. However, is there anyone who ever thought that going to a restaurant may cost you more than your meal? Well, your answer might be "no" but, according to recent reports, goin...

14 May 2008
03:14 GMT

Bank of Israel Attacked by Muslim Hackers

Bank of Israel was recently forced to shut down its website after having been attacked by hackers apparently coming from Algeria, the Jerusalem Post reports today. The website was taken offline on Friday because a hacker called "The Moorish" broke into the servers and modified the content of the page. Besides posting...

30 April 2008
08:05 GMT

Banks Not Responsible for Your Useless Antivirus!

There are so many hacked online bank accounts that banks all over the world start getting tired of helping, recovering and restoring users' accounts just because they were so naive to disclose their login credentials or install useless security products. Because of that, the British Bankers' Association (BB...

4 April 2008
04:27 GMT

Colombian Credit Card Fraudster Pleads Guilty

Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla, a 40-year-old man from Colombia, has pleaded guilty to a 16-count indictment involving a complex computer fraud scheme, victimizing over 600 people, the US Department of Justice announced in a news release. The Colombian citizen managed to steal money from victims' bank accounts and bou...

11 January 2008
15:06 GMT

TROJ_BANKER.MQH Wants Your Money

And... it's here! What seems to be the first Trojan targeting your bank account information is finally here! TROJ_BANKER.MQH comes with a medium damage potential, which underlines the Trojan's capability to reach its goals, in our case - stealing the bank account info. According to security vendor Trend Mic...

10 January 2008
16:06 GMT

Top Gear Host Loses Money after His Bank Account Got Published in The Sunday Times

Jeremy Clarkson, famous for hosting the Top Gear TV series, lost about 500 pounds after someone managed to set up a direct debit transfer to the charity Diabetes UK, BBC News informed today. And all of this happened after the popular TV presenter decided to publish his bank account details into the newspaper, just to...

8 January 2008
03:58 GMT

Online Pr0n Bank

Typos are the source of many evil happenings all over the world, from wrong messages sent to wrong people, and continuously annoying people on the cell phone because you've remembered two numbers in the wrong order, up to changing the whole meaning of your essay's catchphrase to make it be the most obscene...

21 December 2007
15:31 GMT

ABN Amro Clients Involved in Hack Attacks

The Dutch police today announced that it had arrested 14 people suspected to be involved in several phishing scams, conducted by Russian and Ukrainian hackers. The 14 persons put their ABN Amro accounts at hackers' disposal and allowed them to transfer stolen money into their accounts. The illegal funds, which w...

20 December 2007
09:18 GMT

Sensitive Bank Documents Discovered in Public Bin!

A paper shredder - $16.99. The renovation of a bank branch - $221 million. The bank vault plans - priceless. This would be the greatest motto the Bundesbank's Berlin branch could have used, as they chose to put sensitive bank documents right in the trash without even shredding them. Moreover, the papers where f...

14 December 2007
03:49 GMT

Looking for Bank Website? Sorry, It's Unavailable! But We Have Porn...

Let's suppose you have a bank account with online support, so you want to connect to the Internet and check your account. Simple as taking candies from a baby! Obviously, you load the official website of the bank and enter your login credentials. After a certain period of time, you notice that your account is em...

12 December 2007
01:58 GMT

Inexistent Company Stealing User's Money

A woman living in Ohio discovered that a company was stealing money from her account, although nobody had ever informed her about this matter. According to CentralOhio, a company named Fabri-tex took $6,95 from her account, even if the woman didn't know about this. It wouldn't be such a major problem, but a...

6 December 2007
09:45 GMT

How About Buying 30,000 Credit Cards for 1 Pound Each?

A few weeks ago, a security researcher managed to prove us that a huge number of credit cards could be bought online at very low prices. And today, The Times confirms this issue, as the publication has managed to access numerous samples of stolen data, supposed to convince the users to buy a bigger pack of details. T...

3 December 2007
03:40 GMT

Interested In Buying Porn Using Your Employer's Money?

Bradley Gilbert, a 20-year-old man from Bethlehem, was sent to prison for money fraud after he used his ex-employer's bank account to access pornographic content, The Morning Call reports today. In case you're saying this is no big deal, you should know that Mr. Gilbert spent no less than $3,196 on the adul...

14 November 2007
06:08 GMT

Hacker Attacks Bank, Gets Pummeled

The US Commerce bank has been attacked by a hacker. The malicious user tried to do as much damage as he could, be he was quickly repelled.It's not often that we hear of such a thing, so that's why I'm calling it a good piece of news. Now, let me tell you - hackers attack banks, companies, organizations...

11 October 2007
02:56 GMT

Indians on Top Again!

I'm sure you're familiar with the fact that the site belonging to the Bank of India has recently been hacked and infected with a lot of malware. It has been said by Sunbelt experts that the Russian Business Network is behind all this. In any case, the attacks have ceased, the page has been "repaired" and is...

4 September 2007
10:39 GMT

How to Hack a Bank Account

Security on the Internet is just a dream and you know it. If a hacker wants to do something, he or she can do it. If one system is secure and cannot be hacked, then they will steal the data of someone who has access to it, and then, do the "work" from the inside. Do you think you're safe just because some sites ...

3 September 2007
03:48 GMT

The Booby Traps Posed by the Sperm Banks

You can imagine the expectations of a woman who appeals to a bank sperm: the father must be tall, muscular, wide shouldered, with nice a*s, and a big penis. And when the creature they give birth to after nine months of pregnancy looks like ET and has some rare mutation or genetic disorder... A novel New Scientist...

11 August 2007
05:11 GMT

Biometric Security - a Body, a Password

Nowadays most companies use only credit card and numbered accounts in order to pay their employees and cash payments are growing rarer by the day. One problem that arises from this approach is the identity theft or the loss of valuable information like PIN numbers and so on.A number of hardware companies tried, with ...

24 July 2007
11:41 GMT

Google Goes Bankrupt

Google's advertising platform AdSense is surely the most popular solution in its category because it brings free money to numerous registered members. If you didn't know, the Mountain View company automatically sends checks to advertisers once the amount of money from your account reaches a certain limit. B...

17 July 2007
02:21 GMT

Phishing - Not So Dangerous As It Seems!

Phishing is one of the most dangerous online activities because they are usually targeting banks or other financial organizations that can allow the attackers to earn a considerable amount of money in a matter of seconds. Basically, a phishing attack starts with an email message and ends right after you enter your in...

6 July 2007
10:43 GMT

Get Ready for The Hacking Season!

A new phishing campaign is about to begin in New Zealand as some emails are already inviting users to fake websites that are trying to get their private information. According to Sophos, the email claims to come from Kiwibank and requires users to write their account details to "guarantee their money". The message su...

30 May 2007
16:56 GMT

YouTube Shows Valid Bank Numbers!

A shocking YouTube clip reveals that Chase Bank threw several documents containing clients' information in numerous trash bags. Among other types of information, the documents were showing social security numbers and bank accounts, a private type of data that might be used for identity theft. However, the author...

1 May 2007
16:11 GMT

Bank Attacked by Hackers!

The Bank of Hanover was recently attacked by several phishers, aiming to attract the bank's customers to reveal their financial information and account data. Websense Security Labs sustained that numerous bank clients received an e-mail message presenting a survey able to redirect the users to a phishing site to...

29 March 2007
05:46 GMT


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