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S'pore looking to improve online security
News Monetary Authority of Singapore exploring new guidelines to enhance security for online transactions and credit card payments, says Visa exec.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security applications/tools, Security Management, Authentication, credit card payment, Security, Noka, Payment Structure, bank, Authentication and encryption
Google marketplace needs better marketing
News update Android mobile apps reportedly not selling as well as the iPhone's; developers blame it on Google's ineffective marketing on Android marketplace.
Tags: Development/design, Software engineering/development, Google Android, Apple Inc., App, Apple iTunes, Google Android, marketing, billing, Apple iPhone
Schneier warns of marketers and dancing pigs
Insight newsmaker Security guru Bruce Schneier pokes fun at U.S. National Cyber Security Month and says when it comes to privacy, marketers are scarier than governments or criminals.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Facebook, Schneier, Hard Drive Encryption, Information Broker, Security Consideration, Computer, Security, NSA
Hacker pleads guilty to ID thefts netting millions
News Albert Gonzalez faces 25 years in prison and US$3 million in fines and restitution related to charges in New York and Boston, while a New Jersey case is pending.
Tags: Hacking, Data Management, Fraud, Identity Theft, New York, Miami, debit card, Eastern Europe, Hacker, credit card
Network Solutions breach exposes nearly 600,000
News Company warns more than 4,000 merchants that data from transactions of nearly 600,000 credit cardholders was sent outside the company by malware on a server.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Hacking, E-business, PCI, Server, e-mail, credit card, Web Site, Web
Learning to embrace Net without fear
Blogs Like some others out there, I was terrified of the dark and avoided watching horror flicks growing up. But, as I mat...
Credit cards trapped in archaic security era
Blogs Some years back, after finishing a meal and calling for the bill, I handed my credit card to the waiter who returned soo...
Still no arrests from Aust police raid
News Raid carried out by the Australian Federal Police on a Melbourne homeowner suspected of attempting to obtain credit card details via an online forum, has not yielded any arrests or charges.
Tags: Hacking, Authentication and encryption, Arrest, Spokesperson, Storage, RAID, computer, Melbourne, ABC Inc., credit card
UK online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News As Internet banking fraud jumps 55 percent in the first half of 2009, banking industry body warns that cybercriminals are "never going to shut up shop".
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, PC security, Phishing, Security, U.K., bank, One Security Inc., Authentication and encryption, MasterCard International
Symantec tool calculates your data's value to thieves
News Norton Online Risk Calculator figures out how much a person's online information is worth on the black market and offers a risk rating.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Business security, Norton Co., Security, Tool, antivirus, social networking, Symantec Corp., identity fraud, asset
Facebook shuts down malicious fake profiles
News AVG researcher suspects malicious profiles were created automatically by bypassing the Captcha function, but a Facebook spokesman disagrees.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Network security, Google Inc., home video, Authentication and encryption, Web Browser, antivirus, credit card information, Facebook, identity fraud
FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people
News U.S. and Egyptian authorities have charged almost 100 people involved in a phishing scam designed to swipe personal information and use the data to defraud banks.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Lawsuits, Phishing, U.S., bank, Egypt, FBI, Financial Company, credit card company, financial
Expert: iPhone 3GS crypto is easily cracked
News Encryption functionality of the iPhone 3GS is essentially "broken" in protecting sensitive personal data such as credit card numbers, says forensics expert and iPhone developer.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Applications and tools, Network security, Apple Inc., Video, social security number, Social Security, financial, Apple iPhone, credit card
US Congress demands info from Web loyalty firm
News Vertrue, one of three companies accused of misleading consumers into signing up for recurring fees, gets a subpoena from a U.S. Senate committee.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Database management, U.S. Senate, Consumer, personally identifiable information, e-mail, credit card company, exec, credit card
Google adds details to Book Search privacy policy
News Privacy advocates had criticized Google's Book Search settlement as incomplete regarding its privacy policy, and Google has responded with additional commitments.
Tags: Data Management, FTC, Settlement, New York, credit card company, blog, credit card, Data Management
