Forget fumbling with cash and credit cards; smartphones have long been seen as a way to make in store purchases faster and easier. But several challenges need to be overcome before the technology takes off. The field of mobile payments ...
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Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing techniques, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan ...
Microsoft and Symantec have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the US$12.7 billion online advertising industry by ...
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Financial malware authors are returning to traditional, phishing-like, credential-stealing techniques in order to evade detection, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer. Most financial Trojan programs used by cybercriminals ...
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Microsoft and Symantec on Wednesday announced that they have dismantled a botnet that took over millions of computers for criminal activities such as identity theft and click fraud. The Bamital botnet threatened the $12.7 billion online ...
February 1, 2013 -- Canada Credit Fix, Canada’s leading credit restoration and debt settlement specialists, has recently offered its services to the Canadian government in response to a recent loss of student loans data. The loss of ...
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Three men have been jailed for manufacturing illegal and potentially fatal vodka using industrial alcohol that is normally used in antifreeze and cleaning fluids. This equipment was used to make the potentially fatal alcohol During ...
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A government body in the U.K. has fined Sony $396,000 for using lax network security when its PlayStation network was hacked in 2011. The Information Commissioner's Office, a public agency to protect information rights of individuals, ...
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A former co-owner of a U.S. civilian contractor company was sentenced on Thursday in San Antonio to serve 30 months in prison for falsifying official documents in connection with Iraq reconstruction government contracts, announced Assistant ...
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Electronics giant Sony has been fined by Britain's data watchdog for a breach that compromised the personal information of millions of customers using PlayStation video games consoles. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK ...
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The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) has warned its members about fraudulent scrap transactions reported over the past several weeks. BIR stated that scrap metal recyclers have been offered non-existent cargoes of scrap metal. The ...
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The Federal Trade Commission announced an Enforcement Policy Statement regarding the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act,the Wool Products Labeling Act,and the Fur Products Labeling Act concerning treatment of certain retailers that ...
Amazon,Inc.;Leon Max,Inc.;Macy's,Inc.;and Sears,Roebuck and Co.and its Kmart subsidiaries,Kmart Corporation and Kmart,have agreed to pay penalties totaling$1.26 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the ...
IDG News Service - Google has taken steps to close potential security holes created by a fraudulent certificate for its google.com domain, discovered in late December. The certificate was erroneously issued by an intermediate certificate ...
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IDG News Service - Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthorized certificate for google.com, claims that the bad Google certificate ...
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