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Cyber criminals turn pro
News Information being traded includes credit card details, PINs, addresses and bank account details. Credit card details were the most frequently advertised for sale on these servers, accounting for 22 per cent of all items sold. [17 Sep 2007]
Google fixes phishing flaw
News Phishing scams are designed to trick people into giving up sensitive information such as user names, passwords, credit card details and Social Security numbers. The flaw, known as a cross-site scripting vulnerability, existed on the website for... [11 Oct 2005]
Government to be quizzed over UK address database
News A spokesman for Eurim said: "The group is currently working on a number of questions to help clarify the objectives of the ID card program. In the report, Lound asks about the purpose of the NSAI, who will use it and what security measures will be... [11 Jul 2005]
MasterCard scandal: More details emerge
News The program captured credit card data, she said. MBNA, one of the largest US credit card issuers, said it has received information from CardSystems about exposed customer accounts. More details emerged on Monday about the cyber break-in at a... [21 Jun 2005]
Phishing attacks get personal...
News The messages are crafted to appear as if they have been sent by the banks in order to verify other account information, such as an ATM personal-identification number or a credit card CVD code (a series of digits printed on the back of most cards... [16 May 2005]
Zombies are after your ID
News A person whose computer is infected with bot software runs the risk of having sensitive information such as account passwords and credit card numbers sent to the controller of the network. If the game was present, the program would steal items from... [15 Mar 2005]
Phishing - can software stop it?
News The site asks for confidential data such as credit card numbers. Its program, called Web Caller-ID, is already in use at eBay. Hundreds of thousands of eBay members have downloaded the free program since the company launched it in February, an eBay... [17 Aug 2004]
Police warning over new key-logging 'Trojan' spam emails
News The UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) said the spam emails contain details of a fictitious order for web hosting or computer goods and display the cost that will supposedly be charged to their credit card. [13 Aug 2004]
Six-year-old flaw resurfaces in IE
News Using this attack method, hackers could insert links into legitimate web pages and direct people to malicious sites where they could solicit personal information such as bank account or credit card information. [01 Jul 2004]
Can I be your MSN Messenger buddy? And look at your hard drive too…
News To obtain particular information, such as credit card numbers, attackers have to trawl the hard drive, said Toulouse. Later, the software giant will also send notices about the Messenger patch through MSN Messenger itself, said Stephen Toulouse... [10 Mar 2004]
'PayPal' Mimail worm variant on the loose
News The variant, W32/Mimail-I, hits inboxes with the subject line "Your Paypal.com account expires" and tells the user they need to update their credit card details because of a new security policy being implemented. [14 Nov 2003]
US ditches anti-terrorism database
News If it had been fully implemented, TIA would have linked databases from sources such as credit card companies, medical insurers and motor vehicle departments for law enforcement purposes in hopes of snaring terrorists. [26 Sep 2003]
FBI confident of catching Sobig.F author
News Michael Minor, chief technology officer of Easynews, said in the statement: "It appears the account was created with a stolen credit card for the sole purpose of uploading the virus to the Usenet network. [27 Aug 2003]
Dell offers factory-set security
News However, like IBM and HP, it offers smart card readers, which help boost security by better managing passwords and verifying people's identities. Dell will offer the service through its Custom Factory Integration program, which offers a wide range... [10 Jul 2003]
Bush signs Homeland Security bill
News The final law prohibits the Justice Department's proposed citizen-informant programme called TIPS (terrorist information and prevention system) and rejects "the development of a national identification system or card". [26 Nov 2002]
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