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Operation Free Palestine, the op started by TeaMp0isoN, Anonymous and other hacktivist worldwide, continues. As a result, members of TeaMp0isoN published the credit card details of more than 26,000 Israeli citizens obtained from a couple of major Israeli websites, including One (one.co.li), the site that not long ago... |
2 February 2012
08:15 GMT |
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The fact that he threatened to leak a number of 30 million email and Facebook account credentials that belong to users from Saudi Arabia and other countries attracted a lot of attention on Hannibal, the hacker that seeks revenge for the large number of Israeli credit card details published online by various hackers, ... |
19 January 2012
07:48 GMT |
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The fact that the hacker 0xOmar leaked information from a large number of credit cards belonging to Israeli citizens caused a lot of commotion, and pro-Israel hackers are determined to retaliate and win this unofficial cyberwar.
A Pastebin document provides the statement of the “pro-Israeli person,” who ... |
18 January 2012
10:16 GMT |
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During the holidays cybercriminals kept themselves busy, hacking websites and stealing all the data they could find. South African Postbank, a financial institution owned by SA Post Office, is one of the victims, the hackers stealing around $6.7 Million (€4.6 Million).
Fin24 reports that the National Intelligen... |
17 January 2012
07:23 GMT |
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On January 3, we learned how a Saudi hacker collective, that claimed to be part of Anonymous, managed to leak credit card information on a large number of Israeli citizens as a result of a hacking operation against a major sports site. Now, an Israeli student claims he uncovered the true identity of one of the hacker... |
7 January 2012
06:19 GMT |
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A Romanian man is charged by a court of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud after he was arrested for running a card-skimming operation involving HSBC automated teller machines (ATMs) in New York.
Laurentiu Iulian Bulat is accused of placing skimming devices at 40 ATMs belonging to the New York branch o... |
7 January 2012
05:46 GMT |
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On Christmas eve we learned that Anonymous managed to breach the systems belonging to private intelligence company Stratfor, obtaining a few hundred gigabytes of information, including the organization’s A client list. George Friedman, Stratfor’s CEO, came forward with a statement to deny this.
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28 December 2011
08:03 GMT |
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On December 14, I wrote about how the website of Special Forces, an online store that provides military gear, was hacked and their users became exposed. If at the time there was no mention of credit card details, Anonymous came forward with a statement to show that they’re standing on data from 8,000 cards. We... |
28 December 2011
07:29 GMT |
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Gabriella Graham, a 21-year-old woman, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in front of a judge, after prosecutors found her to be part of a gang of crooks that installed skimming devices at ATMs belonging to banks in southern New England.
A number of 11 banks and a credit union were target... |
21 December 2011
10:35 GMT |
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With the holiday season quickly approaching and individuals making a lot of online transactions, cyber fraudsters pull out their old tricks from the closet and begin targeting once again the unsuspecting clients of financial institutions.
Chase and Barclays customers take the spotlight in the latest series of phishi... |
21 December 2011
08:22 GMT |
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Since many Internet users prefer to avoid all the commotion from the stores and shop for Christmas presents online, it’s very useful to know how to protect a credit card and other sensitive information while doing so.
Android devices, iPads and even good old-fashioned PCs may be utilized these days to do some ... |
16 December 2011
09:49 GMT |
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After the Romanian CEC Bank revealed the fact that they were in the process of blocking and reissuing the credit cards of 17,000 of their customers, along with PINs, Visa Europe and the Romanian Association of Banks (RAB) also confirmed the data breach that may have affected cardholders in eastern Europe. Visa Europ... |
16 December 2011
02:52 GMT |
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A serious issue, that shouldn’t exist in the first place, has been brought to our attention by a recent report released by Security Metrics. As it turns out, the number of merchants that store their customers’ credit card data in an unencrypted form is higher than ever.
The latest Merchant Data Security ... |
15 December 2011
05:56 GMT |
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Restaurant Depot and Jetro customers are being officially informed that the company recently fell victim to a hacking operation and all their customers’ credit cards information may have fallen into the hands of profit-driven cybercriminals.
During the period between September 21 and November 18, 2011, unautho... |
12 December 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Four Romanians, known in cybercriminal underground as dobitoc212, xjuniior, iulyvip and r_florinus were indicted by US authorities for hacking into computing devices belonging to more than 200 businesses, especially targeting point-of-sale and checkout systems to steal credit card information.
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9 December 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Back in July, the authorities discovered a skimmer device connected to an ATM at a Chase Bank branch in West Hills California, which they believe it may have been created using a 3D printer. Brian Krebs came in the possession of some pictures representing the device and as it turns out, the skimmer is very well buil... |
8 December 2011
13:21 GMT |
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At the end of November we saw how 20 supermarkets belonging to the Modesto-based Save Mart chain were discovered to host modified credit card readers that were actually set up to function as skimming devices.
As it turns out, at least 80 of their customers and employees reported compromised account data or attempts... |
8 December 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Bitdefender decided to lend its innovative security solutions to NetSecure, a company that specializes in providing eCommerce services, with the purpose of releasing the first secure personal credit card reader.
Bitdefender’s QuickScan will be integrated into NetSecure’s SmartSwipe after recent reports s... |
6 December 2011
10:21 GMT |
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International Checkout customers began receiving emails that alert them on the fact that the organization has recently fallen victim to a cyberattack which resulted in the theft of a large quantity of personal information, including credit card details. “International Checkout was recently the victim of a syst... |
6 December 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Smaller companies from the education and hospitality industries were found to be infected with a Trojan that targets credit card processing and point of sale (PoS) devices to steal highly valuable financial information.
Sophos reports that the Trojan installs itself as a service called rdasrv in Windows that's ... |
30 November 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Video game hardware maker and publisher Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network service has been hacked by an unknown assailant, with about 93,000 accounts compromised, and has urged users to change their log-in details in order to make sure that they are not affected in any way.
Phillip Reitinger, who is ... |
12 October 2011
02:51 GMT |
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While Google may be tightening its focus on core products, it's still experimenting with various ways of expanding and promoting the use of its products. The latest is a very interesting approach, it will be issuing out credit cards to select AdWords customers to be used for online advertising on Google alone.
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21 July 2011
08:49 GMT |
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Kazuo Hirai, who is the president of Sony, has said that just a small number of gamers have so far taken the action of calling into the support center of the company in order to request that their PlayStation Network accounts be terminated.
The executive added that Sony will continue to monitor the situation and t... |
18 May 2011
15:01 GMT |
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A new mass phishing attack targeting Swiss credit card owners was seen using pages signed with a fake and expired SSL certificate.According to security researchers from Symantec, the attackers used a large number of domains pointing to the same IP address and server.The phishing page was signed with a certificate tha... |
26 February 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Security researchers from German antivirus vendor Avira warn of several phishing scams targeting customers of CartaSi, an Italian credit card provider.There were a total of four attacks, all of them using different lures to trick users into clicking on the phishing URLs.According to Sorin Mustaca, data security exper... |
31 January 2011
04:56 GMT |
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A group of security researchers have created an experimental trojan for the Android platform which can detect and record spoken or inputted high-value information, like credit card details, during phone calls. The proof-of-concept app is dubbed "Soundminer" and is the creation of Roman Schlegel from the City Univers... |
24 January 2011
00:30 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro warn of a phishing campaign targeting Netflix customers, which produces emails claiming their accounts were suspended.The rogue emails cite credit card problems and instruct users to log into their accounts via the included link in order to update their payment information.The me... |
21 December 2010
03:23 GMT |
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Credit card fraudsters are increasingly resorting to salami ATM attacks, that are very difficult to detect and can result in significant losses.The new method was described by Gartner Vice President and Analyst Avivah Litan, who calls it "flash attack," because it involves hitting many ATMs at the same time.The attac... |
28 October 2010
05:56 GMT |
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A new research published in the Journal of Consumer Research tried to find out how come people who pay with credit or debit cards buy more unhealthy foods than those who pay with cash.To find out the reason behind this behavior, the authors carried out an analysis of the shopping behavior of 1,000 families, over a si... |
19 October 2010
04:27 GMT |
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The ALDI grocery chain announced that unknown fraudsters have stolen credit card information from customers by planting rogue payment terminals in its stores.ALDI Inc. is an international grocery retailer with a presence in Europe, Australia and the United States, where it operates over 1,100 stores across 31 states.... |
9 October 2010
05:11 GMT |
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According to the UK Cards Association, plastic card, online banking and check fraud losses have decreased considerably during the first half of 2010 compared to the similar period last year.Losses resulted from fraud involving UK cards amounted to £186.8 million (around $296 million) from January to June this y... |
7 October 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Customer credit cards have been compromised after the electronic Point-of-Sale (PoS) systems at multiple hotels owned by HEI Hospitality (HEI Hotels & Resorts) were breached.The data leak incident was reported to the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General by lawyers representing the company in a letter [PDF] da... |
10 September 2010
16:21 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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Security researchers warn that a new Zbot trojan variant attempts to trick users into exposing their card details by mimicking the enrollment forms for the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode security programs.Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode are anti-fraud services, which prevent the abuse of stolen... |
15 July 2010
04:14 GMT |
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The online payments market is booming and, while there are some established players, it's too volatile for any of them to relax. PayPal is a household name on the web yet increased competition from all manner of virtual currency systems and even from traditional monetary services like credit-card company MasterC... |
29 June 2010
07:39 GMT |
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Argos, one of the leading general-goods retailers in the UK, has been sending out order confirmation emails with sensitive credit card data in the source code for months. Sensitive details were also included in a URL sent to costumers.The security breach was reported to PC Pro earlier this month by a former Argos cus... |
5 March 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Last week, over 22 large online retailers, including GameStop, have been subpoenaed by the New York State Attorney General's office, concerning credit-card information sharing with third-party companies. According to a news release made by the office of Andrew Cuomo, New York's Attorney General, the practic... |
5 February 2010
04:14 GMT |
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The year 2010 has caused date representation problems in various pieces of software, crippling critical functionality. Local German media reports that the owners of up to 30 million debit and credit cards issued in the country were unable to use them starting with January 1.Ten years ago, as the year 2000 was approac... |
6 January 2010
08:11 GMT |
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The largest credit card recall effort in Germany's history is underway after an undisclosed payment processor in Spain was breached. Affected individuals are currently being notified and they will be reimbursed if they suffered any losses.The warning about the dangerous situation came from both Visa and Masterca... |
20 November 2009
05:13 GMT |
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Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in the website of a UK-based company called OnlineFX, which conducts foreign exchange services, can be exploited to extract highly sensitive data from the underlying database. Credit card details and customer information are possibly compromised.According to its own website, Online... |
29 September 2009
08:04 GMT |
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According to statistics compiled by a card-not-present transaction-screening company, the small English town of Shildon is one of the most active hotspots for fraudulent purchases in the UK. Local authorities have identified at least one woman who was being used as a shipping intermediary for fraudulently acquired go... |
9 September 2009
08:41 GMT |
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The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a report regarding the situation of ATM crime in the European Union. According to the agency, the rate of such crimes increased by 149 percent in 2008 and resulted in over 485 million euros being lost to fraud during last year. The European AT... |
8 September 2009
07:31 GMT |
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The Radisson Hotels & Resorts chain has issued an apology letter to its North American clients that have been accommodated in some of its Canadian and US-based hotels. The letter was addressing a data breach in the hotel's credit-card security system that allowed third parties to gain access to some customer cre... |
21 August 2009
06:28 GMT |
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DLP Lamp Source, a distributor of replacement DLP and LCD lamps, is in the process of notifying its customers of a data-breach incident, which exposed their personal information and credit-card details. The company notes that the administration portion of its website was compromised by unknown attackers. We have bec... |
31 July 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Network Solutions, one of the biggest domain registrars and web hosting companies in the world, announced a data breach incident yesterday after malicious code had been found on its e-commerce servers. According to the company, the malware might have intercepted transactions from 4,343 websites, compromising 573,928 ... |
25 July 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Tracking daily expenses, either personal or business-related, allows you to better manage your budget and never lose money because of bad management. Expenses 2.0, developed by SymbianGuru, can automatically or manually track expenses, thus optimizing your budget. The money management application is compatible with a... |
16 July 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Notifications from credit unions, banking associations and other various groups point to a big data breach that has not yet been disclosed to the general public. The affected processor has not been named, but, according to the available information, a significant number of accounts have been compromised. The reports... |
26 February 2009
08:04 GMT |
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RBS WorldPay announced in December that a security breach on its network might have compromised the personal information of 1.5 million credit card holders. The company noted at the time that around 100 cards had already been misused by unidentified cyber criminals. However, what it didn't say was that the fraud... |
4 February 2009
09:18 GMT |
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Security researcher Russ McRee published on his blog details about a critical unpatched cross-site scripting vulnerability affecting the American Express website. He claims that he resorted to this after failing for two weeks to convince the company to fix it, despite significant efforts. According to Mr. McRee, he ... |
17 December 2008
09:15 GMT |
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Journalists from the Frankfurter Rundschau (German) magazine had a shock when they examined the contents of a strange cardboard box sent to their office. It contained credit card bills and detailed banking information, including PIN numbers, that were stored on microfilm. The extensive data that should have been con... |
15 December 2008
09:40 GMT |
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