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Article | 22/05/2013 New Citadel malware variant targets Payza online payment platform
A new variant of the Citadel financial malware is targeting users of the Payza online payment platform by launching local in-browser attacks to steal ...
Article | 17/05/2013 New iPhone: Sapphire crystal fingerprint scanner 'to be embedded in home button'
There have been plenty of rumours circulating that Apple is planning to incorporate fingerprint readers into the new iPhone, and now confirmation that...
Article | 17/04/2013 Payleven launches person-to-person card payments in Europe
Germany-based card payments startup Payleven is going to make its chip-and-PIN service available to individuals, the company said on Wednesday.
Article | 3/04/2013 In wake of gTLD security criticism, ICANN announces emergency back-up registry operators
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names wit...
Article | 2/04/2013 Groups say ICANN unprepared for gTLD launch
The delegation of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is premature and could caus...
Article | 19/03/2013 Chirpify opens up Facebook's News Feed for business
Facebook's News Feed is a popular landing page for photos and updates from friends, but now it can also function as a digital storefront of sorts, thr...
Article | 28/02/2013 PayPal accepts coins and paper currency at Coinstar kiosks
A PayPal alliance with Coinstar is being expanded to some parts of the U.S., allowing customers to deposit, withdraw and transfer funds to PayPal acco...
Article | 22/02/2013 PayPal to introduce mobile chip-and-PIN payments service in Europe
PayPal will introduce a mobile chip-and-PIN version of its payments service in Europe, starting with a selection of U.K. businesses over the coming mo...
Article | 25/01/2013 Two former Anonymous members jailed in UK for PayPal, Visa DDoS attacks
Three men were sentenced Thursday in the U.K. for their roles in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against financial a...
Article | 6/12/2012 Former Anonymous member convicted in attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, others
A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymo...
Article | 4/12/2012 Attackers can abuse Yahoo developer feature to steal user emails, other data
Attackers can read emails, contacts and other private data from the accounts of Yahoo users who visit a malicious page by abusing a feature present on...
Article | 28/11/2012 Attackers hijack the .ro domains of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, others
The Romanian domain names of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab and other companies were hijacked on Wednesday and were redirected to a hacked se...
Article | 22/11/2012 HTTP Strict Transport Security becomes Internet standard
A Web security policy mechanism that promises to make HTTPS-enabled websites more resilient to various types of attacks has been approved and released...
Article | 5/11/2012 Hackers claim attacks against ImageShack, Symantec, other websites
Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, and other organizations.
Article | 30/10/2012 PayPal to reorganise, cut 325 jobs
Internet payments company PayPal will cut 325 jobs as part of a companywide reorganisation, its president said.