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  • Massive security flaw in credit card transaction process

    A dummy card is actually inserted into the point-of-sale device, which is wired to the stolen card.For the demonstration, the researchers used a credit card from HSBC, one from the John Lewis department store, and debit cards from Barclays and The…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Signature • Payment • Jeremy Kirk • Credit • Cards • Banks

  • Cyber criminals target small business accounts

    While financial services companies have put considerable emphasis on fighting credit and debit card fraud, there has been somewhat less of a focus on implementing the same kind of controls on electronic payment channels, he said.
    03 September 2009
    Tags: Institutions • Attachments • Alert • Theft • Banks • Warning

  • US company hit by world's largest data breach

    A company spokeswoman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.But given that Heartland processes more than 100 million card transactions per month, it is very possible that the number of compromised credit and debit cards is at least…
    21 January 2009
    Tags: Activity • Numbers • Intrusion • Compromised • Disclosed • Payment

  • Restaurant chain hacked by packet sniffer

    The packet sniffer malfunctioned .and no credit or debit card account information was captured, " Lynch said.Even when the packet sniffer worked, the hackers were forced to keep returning to the Dave Buster's network and restarting their…
    13 May 2008
    Tags: Cyber • Credit • Chain • Locations • Sale • Greatest

  • Hotel hacker confesses to Trojan mayhem

    Through a complex series of electronic transactions designed to cover his trail, Simbaqueba Bonilla would transfer the stolen money to credit, cash or debit cards and have the cards mailed to himself and others at Pak Mail and other commercial…
    11 January 2008
    Tags: Installing • Accounts • Scheme • Cards • Trojans • District

  • Disk loss could cost UK banks £250 million

    The amount is the total that banks might have to spend to close and reopen millions of bank accounts and reissue debit cards to affected customers, Gartner analyst Avivah Litan said in an alert released last week.The figure is based on a…
    27 November 2007
    Tags: Loss • Gartner • Compromised • Account • Disks • Banks

Latest Features

  • The simple way to foil identity theft

    Set up to protect shops from fraudulent use of credit and debit cards, they involved asking customers buying goods to submit a fingerprint to authorise each transaction. Jamieson decided to use this element of the record to specify that all major…
    08 November 2005
    Tags: Crime • Carry • Credit • Schemes • Transactions • Checking
 

How-Tos

  • How to protect your banking online

    One is called a "debit block", used to stop any transactions from going through except those that are preauthorized. The money is then transferred to "money mules," often recruited over Internet job boards, who unwittingly help fraudsters all the…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Victim • Transfers • Transactions • Procedures • Assume • Alerts

  • Case Study: Wireless fast food - Part 1

    Such innovations are a big leap for an industry that only recently began accepting debit and credit cards, and change is still coming slowly.Most operators don't even know what's out there," says Aaron Allen, founder and CEO of Quantified…
    18 April 2007
    Tags: Stations • Credit • Wifi • Association • Payment • Stores

Reviews

  • Business Accountz

    The double-entry system will show a credit in one of these accounts and a debit in another, for each transaction. It replaces the 'Credit' and 'Debit' approach of the double-entry system with 'From' and 'To', which at first glance does appear…
    15 October 2007
    Tags: Credit • Accounts • Table • Accounting • Complexity • Suppliers

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