More details have emerged on the cyberbreak-in at a payment processing company that exposed more than 40 million credit card accounts -- including at least 50,000 in Australia -- to fraud.
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.
Telstra, National Australia Bank and Visa have joined forces to test out near field communications (NFC) -- a technology which allows users to pay for goods by placing their mobile phone on a reader.
As eBay continues to promote its move to a single payment system &mdash PayPal &mdash as being in the best interests of its users, one security specialist believes it may be asking for trouble.
Vodafone pre-paid customers are reporting being unable to top-up their phone credit due to a problem with Vodafone's credit card processing system.
Near field communications -- or NFC -- may sound like another dull mobile acronym. However, the reality is a smooth system that will delight the lazy and impatient.
When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?
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Post-election adrenaline surging through his veins, one of the first acts performed by new Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was to disband the expert panel that his predecessor Helen Coonan had appointed last June to evaluate tenders for fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) construction.
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The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous.
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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.
Money is fast becoming the lifeblood of the Web, yet there hasn’t been a simple way for individuals to send and receive cash online. Credit cards work well for most e-commerce sites, but what about auctions, or the occasional sale from your personal Web site?
Microsoft Money 2006 is a worthwhile upgrade for current users who like to bank and pay bills online, but it requires Windows XP.
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