21 month ago
adamrg : 19 Banking Do's And Don'ts - Goofus and Gallant to the rescue again!
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35 month ago
Rod Begbie : SANS - Internet Storm Center - Phollow the Phlopping Phish - All the info on a remarkably well-done phishing scam. Even users trained not to fall for scams could fall for this. [via] #
kayodeok : Phollow the Phlopping Phish - we're going to phollow a phish and see where it takes us. Along the way, while we won't be getting down and dirty with bits and bytes, we will talk a little about scams, social engineering, and some of the plain old dumb things that companies do to make
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Cash With a Human Face - Here’s a useful innovation for foiling scammers stealing money from ATMs with their heads covered to avoid identification: a system which “can distinguish between someone whose face is covered or uncovered, and only grant access to those who
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Identity Theft is real, and what you’re about to read will astound you. - You NEVER share your Social Security number, you NEVER share your passwords, and you NEVER share your bank account information. And if you really need to share this data, you DON'T DO IT IN PUBLIC! Identity theft is real, and any one of these pieces of da
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40 month ago
kayodeok : A Real Remedy for Phishers - Financial companies have until now avoided taking on phishers in a serious way, because it's cheaper and simpler to pay the costs of fraud. That's unacceptable
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Netcraft: Banks Shifting Logins to Non-SSL Pages - After years of training customers to trust only SSL-enabled sites, banks are shifting their online banking logins to the unencrypted home pages of their websites
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Japanese bank accounts raided by spyware - Experts at Sophos are advising computer users to ensure their anti-virus products can also protect against spyware after the reported theft of $84,000 (9.4 million yen) from nine Japanese bank accounts
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Bank to require more than passwords - With SiteKey, bank customers pick three challenge questions - things only the customer would know, such as the year and model of the customer's first car -- and provide them with the traditional password to log on
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Visa cuts ties with CardSystems over breach - CardSystems Solutions Inc. "has not corrected, and cannot at this point correct, the failure to provide proper data security for Visa accounts,"
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43 month ago
kayodeok : 1000 UK Bank Account Details 'sold' to an undercover report - Police are investigating reports an Indian call centre worker sold the bank account details of 1,000 UK customers to an undercover reporter
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43 month ago
jkottke : How the black market for stolen credit cards and identies works
kayodeok : Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data Thrives on Internet - It is not clear whether any data stolen from CardSystems Solutions, the payment processor reported on Friday to have exposed 40 million credit card accounts to possible theft, has entered this black market
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Lost Credit Data Improperly Kept, Company Admits - The chief of the credit card processing company whose computer system was penetrated by data thieves, exposing 40 million cardholders to a risk of fraud, acknowledged yesterday that the company should not have been retaining those records
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Security breach may have exposed 40M credit cards - A hacker was able to access potentially 40 million credit card numbers by infiltrating the network of a company that processed payment data for MasterCard International Inc. and other companies, MasterCard said Friday.
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43 month ago
kayodeok : MasterCard Says 40 Million Files Are Put at Risk - NY Times has more: "About 20 million Visa and 13.9 million MasterCard accounts were compromised; the other accounts belonged to American Express or Discover cardholders. The accounts affected included credit cards and certain kinds of debit cards"
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44 month ago
kayodeok : Banks To Customers: You Have To Pay For Phishing - "It certainly seems extraordinary to me that banks have been so quick to shift customers online, where the savings are huge, and are now reversing engines and charging them."
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45 month ago
kayodeok : Loose Wire: Phishing Pushes Banking To Impose Transfer Limits - Germany's biggest retail bank, Postbank, said Monday it was imposing a euro3,000 (US$3,860) limit on online transfers in an effort to protect customers against e-mail "phishing" scams
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