The five major credit card companies have teamed up in the interest of better security.
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has raised the spectre of Australia becoming a haven for credit card criminals, in its latest research on electronic crime.
Phishing attacks have led to an estimated US$2.75 billion in losses related to ATM and debit cards over the past 12 months, according to a new Gartner report.
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.
Customers that poorly protect credit card information are the greatest concern for banks attempting to tackle transaction fraud, according to HSBC's Australian-based chief information officer.
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Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.
The feature-rich versions of popular security program AVG have been updated, with AVG Technologies claiming faster scan times, faster boot times and other under-the-hood improvements.
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