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.
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.
A security company claims to have uncovered an online exchange for credit-card data that has been obtained by fraudulent means most likely phishing.
A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week.
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At the Beijing Olympics, cybercriminals will be on the prowl for credit card information to steal, and security forces could well direct snooping efforts at unsuspecting travellers, warns the US government.
Most of Australia's major banks are just beginning massive IT projects which will see them refresh their core banking systems. But as HSBC's Australian CIO Brenton Hush tells ZDNet.com.au, the global bank's local operation is already ahead.
A new phishing e-mail aimed at diverting donations to the Australian Paralympic Team has emerged -- complete with a coding error which means that the cold-hearted scam is unlikely to work.
With millions of customers at AGL paying by credit card, Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007, explains the importance of security and why outsourcing it is a bad idea. Tizi also talks about why Australia should implement stringent data disclosure laws.
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.
Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.
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