items tagged with Credit Cards
Collaboration leads to Visa investment in Emue Technologies
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals and Wheels - Mergers & Acquisitions
2009-11-19 19:07:55
Visa Europe has taken a stake in Australian global authentication company, Emue Technologies, following collaboration over the past 18 months with Emue in the development of the Visa CodeSure solution which provides authentication and transaction security through what Visa says is a “unique payment card” with embedded display, microprocessor and numeric keypad.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals and Wheels - Mergers & Acquisitions
2009-11-19 19:07:55
Visa Europe has taken a stake in Australian global authentication company, Emue Technologies, following collaboration over the past 18 months with Emue in the development of the Visa CodeSure solution which provides authentication and transaction security through what Visa says is a “unique payment card” with embedded display, microprocessor and numeric keypad.
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Identity theft, crime rife in Australia
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-01 02:06:19
Credit card theft, unauthorised bank account access and identity theft are rife in Australia with more than one in five Australians aged 16-years or over now reporting that someone has stolen their identity, illegally accessed, or tried to access their bank accounts, stolen or skimmed their credit cards or tried to steal their bank account pin.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-01 02:06:19
Credit card theft, unauthorised bank account access and identity theft are rife in Australia with more than one in five Australians aged 16-years or over now reporting that someone has stolen their identity, illegally accessed, or tried to access their bank accounts, stolen or skimmed their credit cards or tried to steal their bank account pin.
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Dubious Australian honour as top 10 phishing attack host
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-09-02 03:59:01
Australia is still one of the top 10 countries to host phishing attacks, according to a new security fraud report out today, while six countries - the US, U.K, Italy, Canada, Spain and South Africa – have consistently suffered the most phishing attacks.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Phishing
2009-09-02 03:59:01
Australia is still one of the top 10 countries to host phishing attacks, according to a new security fraud report out today, while six countries - the US, U.K, Italy, Canada, Spain and South Africa – have consistently suffered the most phishing attacks.
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Network Solutions breach exposes 573,928 credit cards
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-28 06:57:04
More than half a million credit cards could have been compromised after unauthorised code was discovered on major merchant website host servers.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-28 06:57:04
More than half a million credit cards could have been compromised after unauthorised code was discovered on major merchant website host servers.
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ATO warns taxpayers of fake refund phishing scam
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-14 21:05:08
Just as the financial year draws to a close, scammers are using the Australian Tax Office as a guise to collect information about active bank and credit card accounts that would allow fraudulent transactions to be made.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-14 21:05:08
Just as the financial year draws to a close, scammers are using the Australian Tax Office as a guise to collect information about active bank and credit card accounts that would allow fraudulent transactions to be made.
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Beware, malware by stealth stalks the net!
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-06-10 03:39:36
All is not what it seems on the Internet for those users unlucky enough to be duped by scammers posing as online payment services in order to steal your most private of personal information, including credit card details.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-06-10 03:39:36
All is not what it seems on the Internet for those users unlucky enough to be duped by scammers posing as online payment services in order to steal your most private of personal information, including credit card details.
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Four-fold increase in credit card fraud
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-24 03:06:16
Credit card fraud in Australia has been growing four times faster than the number of card transaction Aussies make and there’s been a warning to businesses to strengthen their defences against the fraudsters.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-24 03:06:16
Credit card fraud in Australia has been growing four times faster than the number of card transaction Aussies make and there’s been a warning to businesses to strengthen their defences against the fraudsters.
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Concerns about cyber fraud loom during economic crisis
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-19 03:11:27
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-19 03:11:27
There’s real concern amongst Australian consumers who do their shopping, make payments and undertake banking transactions online that the current economic crisis has increased the risk of their identity being stolen or that they will be the target of cyber criminals.
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No surprise, but cash is king in tough times for Aussies: Survey
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-15 00:10:49
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-15 00:10:49
Many Australians have apparently reacted to the current financial crisis by abandoning or limiting their use of credit and debit cards and are now using cash as a way to control their spending, according to a study by ATM manufacturer, NCR.
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Mint makes mobile payment system an easy buy for SMEs
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-04-09 02:13:04
The idea of turning a mobile phone into an credit card terminal might not be brand new, but Mint Wireless is certainly making its MiniMint system readily available to small business people.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-04-09 02:13:04
The idea of turning a mobile phone into an credit card terminal might not be brand new, but Mint Wireless is certainly making its MiniMint system readily available to small business people.
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Pay-by-mobile trial gets the nod
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 23:51:38
A contactless payment trial using mobile phones instead of cards has proved successful, and may help pave the way for an international scheme for making small payments by waving handsets.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-18 23:51:38
A contactless payment trial using mobile phones instead of cards has proved successful, and may help pave the way for an international scheme for making small payments by waving handsets.
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TrustDefender and the Trojan Vundo story
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-20 10:18:47
Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected – despite being infected.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-20 10:18:47
Even with anti-virus protection, this is the story of Vundo Trojan infecting a protected computer anyway. A different anti-virus product removed the Trojan, but it kept coming back, so here’s how the Trojan was removed, and how TrustDefender would have kept that user protected – despite being infected.
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Does crime pay? Online crims enjoy massive boom
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-11-24 21:08:24
Symantec’s latest report on the “underground economy” shows that online criminals are enjoying their biggest ever boom, just as the world is experiencing economic turmoil. Never before has online crime been so big or so bad – but there definitely are things you can do to protect yourself!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-11-24 21:08:24
Symantec’s latest report on the “underground economy” shows that online criminals are enjoying their biggest ever boom, just as the world is experiencing economic turmoil. Never before has online crime been so big or so bad – but there definitely are things you can do to protect yourself!
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VISA pilots credit card with integrated PIN keypad
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2008-11-11 05:17:32
The Bank of America in the UK is amongst the first to pilot a new VISA credit card with an integrated PIN pad and one-time security code system for Internet transactions. So how does that work then?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2008-11-11 05:17:32
The Bank of America in the UK is amongst the first to pilot a new VISA credit card with an integrated PIN pad and one-time security code system for Internet transactions. So how does that work then?
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Stolen Australian credit cards going cheap
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-10-11 07:47:41
Six months ago you could buy stolen US credit card details from the online underground for the seemingly bargain basement price of USD $10 a pop. However, it appears that stolen Australian credit cards have now hit the real rock bottom and can be picked up for as little as just USD $1.50 a time...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-10-11 07:47:41
Six months ago you could buy stolen US credit card details from the online underground for the seemingly bargain basement price of USD $10 a pop. However, it appears that stolen Australian credit cards have now hit the real rock bottom and can be picked up for as little as just USD $1.50 a time...
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'Pay by phone' gets new meaning with Visa trial
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-27 02:07:48
Has the coin-free payments revolution finally begun in Australia? A contactless payments trial is allowing participants to charge small purchases to their credit cards simply by waving their mobile phones over a reader.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Mobiles
2008-08-27 02:07:48
Has the coin-free payments revolution finally begun in Australia? A contactless payments trial is allowing participants to charge small purchases to their credit cards simply by waving their mobile phones over a reader.
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Chip and Pin protection cracked like a rotten foreign egg
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-14 05:10:42
Chip and Pin has reduced payment card fraud in the UK by £145.8 million to 'just' £73 million in the three years since it was introduced. It has also driven overseas card fraud through the roof: up 77 percent in the past year alone. News of a new criminal exploit could push that figure even higher...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-14 05:10:42
Chip and Pin has reduced payment card fraud in the UK by £145.8 million to 'just' £73 million in the three years since it was introduced. It has also driven overseas card fraud through the roof: up 77 percent in the past year alone. News of a new criminal exploit could push that figure even higher...
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