The five major credit card companies have teamed up in the interest of better security.
Credit card users will be given the option of entering a PIN as an alternative to signing their name to authenticate a transaction under a banking industry initiative scheduled to start today.
The Victorian and Australian Federal Police forces last week raided a suspected internet fraudster based in Melbourne, the ABC's Four Corners revealed last night.
Visa Australia said today it was moving to chip and PIN technology for all of its credit cards, with signature transactions to be banned by April 2013.
A study by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that in 2007 half a million people fell victim to some form of fraud 383,300 were victims of credit and bank card fraud.
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The Bank of Queensland is in the midst of a $480 million outsourcing partnership with EDS which has seen the bank's profits double in the last three years.
Sceptical that Australians are targeted by cybercrime? Late last year the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) was asked to repatriate hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customer credentials which had been stolen via the ZeuS trojan.
The Commonwealth Bank stands alone as the only top tier bank in Australia with its sights on biometrics as a means to improve security for its customers -- but critics say the technology is still too young.
The Driving Standards Agency has admitted losing over three million learner drivers' details.
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An extended period of negotiation over a relatively simple "over the phone" top-up solution for pre-paid mobiles has highlighted the conservative approach financial institutions are taking to e-commerce participation.
Starting Oct. 1, Microsoft will move many of its most popular enterprise packages--including Office--to a new subscription system that could raise the price 33 to 107 percent.
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