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Card specialist Visa today launched a "Verified by Visa" authentication service in Australia - but it will do little to improve security unless it is uniformly adopted by merchants.
A mass card skimming attack on a Swedish IKEA store has highlighted the dangers Australian consumers face while banks and retailers fight it out over who foots the bill for chip and PIN.
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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Nokia and MasterCard launch a US trial of a new breed of mobile phone technology that lets people use their Nokia phones as credit cards.
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Australian MasterCard executives are awaiting the results of a joint trial with Nokia in the United States of new technologies that allow individuals to use their mobile phones as credit cards before implementing any local program.
An optical antenna that uses a geometrically shaped lens promises to bring greater security to wireless networks for businesses, according to British scientists.
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