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Credit risk for customers after firm's PCs stolen
News Intuit is urging affected customers to contact their banks to have credit cards cancelled or monitored for suspicious activity. Intuit, a provider of financial software and services, is warning 47,000 customers that their credit-card data may be at...
[July 15, 2004, 10:10]
$3m card trick baffles hosting firms
News A major online payment provider said on Monday its processing service had been used in an attempt to charge money to stolen credit and debit cards. Several Web hosting companies that use the Authorize.Net service to accept credit cards online saw a...
[April 4, 2006, 9:25]
Banks nearing agreement on Web security
Talkback Credit and ATM cards are absolutely secure even if the Card, PIN, and password, are stolen without the knowledge of the victim. OVERLORD is 100% securie authentication for all transactions, even credit card transactions, in store and internet...
[February 15, 2006, 4:56]
Major online credit card theft exposed
News In the largest known case of "cybertheft", a computer intruder stole information on more than 485,000 credit cards from an e-commerce site, and then secretly stored the massive database on a US government agency's Web site, ZDNet US has learned.
[March 17, 2000, 12:37]
'Buffalo Spammer' arrested for ID theft
News Carmack is alleged to have opened more than 340 accounts with EarthLink using stolen credit cards and other false documentation, causing the ISP to lose in excess of $1m in network resources and bogus accounts.
[May 15, 2003, 9:17]
Fraudsters search Google for credit-card numbers
News So far this year, Visa has had 20 sites pulled from the Web for trafficking in stolen credit cards. His credit union refunded the charges and now he only uses credit cards to make Internet purchases, because fraudulent charges using a credit card...
[August 4, 2004, 8:45]
International crackdown nets ID theft ring
News The group traded stolen credit card numbers and bank account information as well as counterfeit passports, drivers' licences, Social Security cards, credit cards, debit cards, birth certificates, college student ID cards, and health insurance...
[October 29, 2004, 8:54]
Alleged TJX hackers charged
News The Department of Justice alleges that Gonzalez and co-conspirators obtained the credit- and debit-card numbers by 'wardriving', or touring around testing wireless computer networks for vulnerabilities, then hacking into them.
[August 6, 2008, 13:34]
Three indicted in largest-ever US hacking prosecution
News Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and debit cards.
[August 18, 2009, 9:17]
Home Office steps up mobile fraud measures
News The system makes it possible to swipe mobile phones against readers to pay for goods and services in the same way as debit, credit and pre-pay cards. However, there are fears that by authorising payments against bank or credit accounts, it could...
[August 28, 2009, 12:44]
Anti-fraud service blacklists PC hardware
News Online poker has become a popular way to launder money from stolen credit cards, he said. Iovation has devised a service that identifies PCs that have been used to make purchases or wagers on a given site with stolen credit cards.
[July 31, 2006, 9:40]
Scam tricks users into 'stealing'
News So just what do computer criminals do with stolen credit cards? Then, using a stolen credit card number with a high credit limit, the criminal ordered the camera at full retail price and had it shipped directly to the victim.
[January 26, 2000, 9:24]
Identity fraud on the increase
News Despite the headlines phishing and hacking attacks get, most of the identity fraud still results from lost or stolen wallets, chequebooks and credit cards, according to the report. Most people surveyed who knew the method of their identity fraud...
[February 10, 2009, 8:49]
Visa cards blocked after details stolen
News Visa has confirmed that the credit card details of "a number" of Visa customers in the US and Europe have been stolen from a US-based firm. Some affected customers have had their cards blocked and are now unable to take advantage of the Visa slogan...
[June 13, 2003, 13:57]
Credit Cards Trap
Downloads If your iPhone is stolen and the thief tries to go through your device, the thief will find an icon saying Credit Cards. He does not know that in the background, Credit Cards Trap is detecting the exact device location and mailing you the details.
[August 3, 2009, 12:10]
Credit Cards Trap Lite
Downloads If your iPhone is stolen and the thief tries to go through your device, the thief will find an icon saying Credit Cards. He does not know that in the background, Credit Cards Trap Lite is detecting the exact device location and mailing you the...
[August 3, 2009, 12:17]
PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information
White Papers The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data breaches associated with credit cards. The Federal Trade Commission received more than 685,000 complaints of fraud and identity theft in 2005, totaling more than $680 million in stolen assets.
[April 22, 2008, 1:02]
LockBox for Palm OS
Downloads Wouldn't it be convenient to have a single repository for credit cards, bank accounts, passwords, and other sensitive information? But what happens if your device is lost or stolen? If you use a PDA, you know how handy it is to be able to...
[August 3, 2006, 8:00]
LockBox for Series 60
Downloads Wouldn''t it be convenient to have a single repository for credit cards, bank accounts, passwords, and other sensitive information? But what happens if your device is lost or stolen? If you use a PDA, you know how handy it is to be able...
[November 29, 2003, 7:00]
Wireless credit card in development
Talkback It seems that with the developent of wireless credit card technology, you will next develope a system that is theft proof .ie inserting the chip under the skin so it cant be stolen . Why not put I.D cards on it as well?
[September 1, 2005, 15:55]
