|
Home / News / Tags / credit card
|
|
30
Stories about: credit card |
|
|
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 |
 |
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
Reports are flying in saying that a scammer using an e-mail purporting to be from Apple is targeting MobileMe users. The e-mail claims there are problems with the users' subscription, and asks of them to re-enter their credit card information.As many of you should know (and especially former .Mac users), the tra... |
8 September 2008
05:42 GMT |
|
|
Eleven people that are believed to have conspired in the largest hack and identity theft in history had been charged. According to the authorities, some of the numerous counts the men were charged with are conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft. The nationality of ten out of the 11 defendants has be... |
6 September 2008
07:40 GMT |
|
|
Adam Savage, co-host of the popular show “The MythBusters,” has disclosed at a hacking conference that The Discovery Channel was legally pressured into canceling one of the show's episodes. He claims that the episode, which was going to tackle the security and reliability of the RFID (Radio Frequency... |
4 September 2008
11:16 GMT |
|
|
According to a BBC investigation, stolen US credit card details are shared on the underground carding market for use in the UK. A gang that stole thousands of credit card details from ATMs across the US are contacting UK carders, and have them manufacture fake card clones to buy goods, or withdraw cash from self-serv... |
2 September 2008
09:12 GMT |
|
|
The Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Security Standards Council announced that a revised version of the Data Security Standard (DSS) would be finished by September 8. The new 1.2 version will be presented at the upcoming meetings in Orlando (for North America) and Brussels (for Europe). A possible compliance deadl... |
30 August 2008
06:25 GMT |
|
|
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 |
|
|
The National Police Service in Ireland is investigating a major credit card scam in which information of over 20,000 credit and debit cards has been stolen. The attackers posed as bank service personnel and attached rogue devices to card readers in stores from northeast Ireland. The captured data was then sent on the... |
20 August 2008
04:49 GMT |
|
|
Smart cards are electronic devices with a striking resemblance to credit cards, although with a broader range of applications and higher security levels. Typical credit cards are basically all plastic. On credit cards information is stored on a magnetic strip similar to that of the magnetic tape inside audio cassette... |
30 May 2008
08:41 GMT |
|
|
A group of eleven hackers were arrested by the German police as part of an investigation carried out by the local authorities over an Internet forum relying on hacking techniques. According to The Local, the forum had approximately 33,000 members, most of the topics being related to hacking activities, some of them e... |
8 May 2008
04:11 GMT |
|
|
Today's malicious activities are most intended to steal people's information, no matter if we're talking about names, addresses, social security numbers or credit card details. Although most victims would be tempted to believe that hackers steal these details in order to compromise their computers and ... |
24 April 2008
05:10 GMT |
|
|
We've seen lots of ID thefts and credit card scams but when they're conducted by a former pastor who's here to represent God, that's pretty shocking news. A recent report by Associated Press reveals that Rev. Raymond Clayton from Northumberland County has pleaded guilty to charges of using parishi... |
2 April 2008
08:16 GMT |
|
|
Stealing credit cards and selling them on the web is almost a phenomenon these days as there are several ways to find such a 'merchant'. However, one of the most popular methods to sell stolen information was actually a website, apparently hosted by Google's Blogger, which gained impressive popularity ... |
26 March 2008
17:56 GMT |
|
|
This is something even the United States' Secret Service is looking into, so it must be really big. But, like I said in the subtitle, it's only half bad, as the information lost only included the supermarket responsible's customers credit and debit card numbers, and not the corresponding names and addr... |
19 March 2008
16:21 GMT |
|
|
Every credit card has personally identifiable information inserted into the magnetic strip on the back, but hacking it so far proved a task too difficult for most malevolent figures to even attempt. RFID security guru Adam Laurie has come up with a test program named CHaP.py, specifically designed to read the chip an... |
21 February 2008
09:57 GMT |
|
|
Internet crime is very alluring because it is fairly easy to commit and it doesn't take the mastermind planning required to rob a bank. It's mostly a routine job of going through credit card numbers and transacting from others' accounts into their favor or promising items that you don't have and t... |
11 February 2008
06:50 GMT |
|
|
Hilarious is too soft of a term to describe this Danish police investigation of a stolen credit card. Danish police investigators had a contradictory chat with the author's roommate, regarding stuff like why she could read his November emails since the 1G iMac was just two weeks old, and where exactly was the 1G... |
7 February 2008
05:38 GMT |
|
|
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 |
|
|
Ever thought that a popular service hosted by a huge company, such as Google, can turn into one of the most dangerous websites on the web, for hundreds of people? Maybe not, but today, it has been proved that such a thing can happen in a matter of seconds and can have some serious consequences for all the ones involv... |
10 January 2008
15:06 GMT |
|
|
Credit cards reached the web. The folks at SpywareGuide wrote that details about approximately 150 credit cards were published on a Warez forum along with all the information a fraudster would need to use the money. The weird aspect of the leakage was that the credit cards were posted by an unexperienced carder, as h... |
10 December 2007
04:21 GMT |
|
|
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 |
|
|
This is the second dismissed lawsuit of the day, after a court has decided to put the case between LimeWire and several label companies out of judicial consideration. If the first lawsuit was dismissed because LimeWire didn't manage to prove that the label companies harmed the company, the Supreme Court said the... |
4 December 2007
04:45 GMT |
|
|
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 |
|
|
The credit cards represent the easiest way to access your bank account and manage your funds. Because they are usually related to important amounts of money, attackers from all over the world attempted to conduct credit card fraud to steal them and obviously obtain the owner's credentials. This way, they could e... |
23 November 2007
14:26 GMT |
|
|
Since the credit cards contain so much information about your money, an important part of today's attacks are obviously targeting them as the hackers aim to steal users' credentials and get access to their accounts. Gunter Ollmann of Frequency X wrote that along with credit cards and identity info, the pass... |
23 November 2007
03:02 GMT |
|
|
A US court accused no less than 17 persons of identity theft, credit card fraud and other illegal activities conducted and promoted with the help of the Internet, Reuters reported today. According to the same source, a corporation is also involved in the case. It appears that the fraudsters obtained no less than $4 m... |
9 November 2007
03:08 GMT |
|
|
Want an iPhone? Ditch the cash and get yourself a credit card. Apple has just decided that they will sell their first handset only through this payment solution, while also keeping the two devices per purchase limit, in order to prevent unlocking for second sales.Apple just marked another oddity on the long list of u... |
29 October 2007
04:37 GMT |
|
|
Meet the A generation credit card. It looks futuristic enough to make me think of "Sliders". But, besides that, the device incorporates a 12-button keyboard, has a built-in tiny microprocessor and reveals an embedded ATM-like alphanumeric display. In addition, it promises to provide unprecedented security in phone an... |
25 October 2007
03:02 GMT |
|
|
MyGate, a South African payment gateway service, has created a service that lets e-commerce merchants using Linux to access credit card security services that were initially developed for Windows.MasterCard SecureCode and Visa 3D Secure reduce the risk of credit card fraud. They require software to be installed on th... |
27 September 2007
08:50 GMT |
|
|
Gaith Taha from the security company McAfee revealed another technique used nowadays to steal credit card information from the naive users. First of all, you should know that it concerns Facebook, one of the most popular social websites in our days. Using this webpage, a user called Natalie sent private messages on F... |
26 July 2007
06:29 GMT |
|
|
The U.S. Secret Service managed to arrest 4 persons involved in a dangerous criminal gang from Florida that stole no less than 200.000 credit cards. It seems like they obtained approximately $75 million from the credit card frauds but they quickly redirected the money to other destinations as the investigators discov... |
10 July 2007
10:57 GMT |
|
|
A new technique to steal credit cards and remain unidentified is spreading on the Internet, numerous attackers preferring to donate money to charity in order to verify the validity of the cards. This is quite an interesting method to avoid identification because the banks and the authorities are often ignoring the ch... |
9 July 2007
09:12 GMT |
|
|
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 |
|
|
Five people from the Eastern Europe were sentenced to jail after they were found guilty for the largest UK credit card fraud. The gang was led by Roman Zyking, a Russian immigrant who received no more than five and a half years in prison while his wife was sentenced to six months in jail. According to Viruslist, the ... |
14 May 2007
09:16 GMT |
|
|
|
|
