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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]
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]
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]
Inside Spyware
White Papers Your computer, or those of the people in the organization, is possibly being used to send spam, harvest e-mail addresses for spam, and make purchases using stolen credit cards or take part in a Denial of Service (DoS) attack, where an army of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Keylogger King Home
Downloads If you don't want to be responsible for your kids buying goods on-line with stolen credit cards, you need a program like Keylogger King Home that logs all keyboard activities and applications running.
[December 7, 2005, 0:31]
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]
Retailers Tout RFID For Timely Transactions
White Papers Credit cards reduce the risk to a degree, but credit fraud is an ever-increasing problem. The practice of card skimming, or recording data from credit card magnetic stripes with a rudimentary MSR (Magnetic Stripe Reader) while the card is away from...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Hackers Steal 40 Million Credit Card Numbers
News In what could be the largest data security breach to date, MasterCard International on Friday said information on more than 40 million credit cards may have been stolen. Though credit card numbers were compromised, the cards themselves do not hold...
[June 20, 2005, 9:10]
Italian Hackers: Business Or Leisure?
News The technical expert in charge of the unit that arrested 14 hacking suspects last week has characterised the hackers as a sophisticated criminal network that stole sensitive information from businesses and government, while funding its activities...
[August 5, 2002, 12:04]
EarthLink Takes Action Against 'Alabama Spammers'
News The Internet service provider is seeking an injunction and damages against defendants who "engaged in a massive scheme of theft, spamming and spoofing," with the use of stolen credit cards and unauthorised use of Net access accounts, according to...
[August 28, 2003, 10:45]
Hackers Gain Credit Card Details Through UK Retailer
News It was initially believed 2,000 credit card details had been stolen after silicon.com exclusively revealed that MasterCard advised card issuers to shut down the accounts of the cardholders affected and issue new cards after discovering the breach.
[May 2, 2006, 10:50]
Internet Fraud On The Rise
News While stolen credit cards and identity theft make up the majority of frauds perpetrated on the Net -- 28 percent and 20 percent respectively -- there is a worrying new trend emerging among criminals: Web sites which generate credit cards.
[November 24, 1999, 16:07]
