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Article | 10/05/2013 Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud
A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.
Article | 26/04/2013 LivingSocial gets hacked, 50 million users told to reset passwords
More than 50 million users of the daily deals site LivingSocial are being asked to reset their passwords after hackers attacked the company's servers ...
Article | 17/04/2013 Microsoft moves to optional two-factor authentication
Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the lo...
Article | 4/04/2013 Bitcoin storage service, Instawallet, suffers database attack
An online bitcoin storage service, Instawallet, said Wednesday it is accepting claims for stolen bitcoins after the company's database was fraudulentl...
Article | 28/03/2013 Researchers find new point-of-sale malware called BlackPOS
A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers ...
Article | 20/03/2013 Microsoft: Hackers obtained high-profile Xbox Live accounts
Several high-profile Xbox Live accounts for former and current Microsoft employees were compromised by attackers using social engineering techniques, ...
Article | 19/03/2013 Credit report breach has link to Zeus banking malware
A website that leaked credit reports of celebrities and government officials last week appears to have a curious link to the malicious banking softwar...
Article | 18/03/2013 Site hosting leaked celebrity data goes offline
A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The...
Article | 21/02/2013 Identity fraud in US reaches highest level in three years
U.S. consumers experienced the highest level of identity theft in three years in 2012, although much of the fraud losses were absorbed by banks and me...
Article | 8/02/2013 Banking malware returns to basics to evade detection, Trusteer says
Financial malware authors are trying to evade new online banking security systems by returning to more traditional phishing-like credential stealing t...
Article | 4/02/2013 Dutch man sentenced in US to 12 years in credit card scam
A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a US prison in a fraud prosecutors alleged caused m...
Article | 19/01/2013 Google sees one password ring to rule them all
Google thinks it might have found an answer to the vexing problem of forgotten or weak passwords: "physical" passwords, which might come in the form o...
Article | 9/01/2013 Banks crack down on cyber-based account takeovers
U.S. banks and their customers are doing a better job of protecting themselves against cyberattacks that result in thieves taking over commercial acco...
Article | 7/01/2013 EU organized crime makes €1.5 billion a year on credit card fraud
Organized crime groups in Europe make about €1.5 billion (US$2 billion) a year from payment card fraud, according to a new report from the European Po...
Article | 17/12/2012 German privacy regulator orders Facebook to end its real name policy
A German privacy regulator ordered Facebook to stop enforcing its real name policy because it violates a German law that gives users the right to use ...

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