Virtual credit cards coming to Chrome: What you need to know

When youre buying things online, reducing the exposure of payment details during transactions is one way to help reduce the risk of data theft. If you can hide this payment data and switch it out for something else entirely, even better. Google is proposing to do just that for customers in the US...

How Cyber Sleuths Cracked an ATM Shimmer Gang

In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new "shimming" devices made to steal data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many of these shimmers, but for years couldnt decrypt the data on the devices. This is...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake VISA Card Transactions Report Notification Email Messages on November 11, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31714 First Published: 2013 November 11 20:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a VISA card transaction report for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

NSA Intelligence Agency spies on International Credit Card Transactions including Visa

"The truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped", Edward Snowden. The National Security Agency isn't just snooping into phone and online communications. It also appears to be keeping a close eye on credit card transactions. New reports published by Der Spiegel exposed that The National Security...

Visa: New Tools Could Spot Additional $1.5b In Fraud

Credit card giant Visa Inc. said on Thursday that an update to its anti-fraud technology will make it easier to spot sophisticated credit card fraud that spans national borders. Visa said the update amounted to a major upgrade of Visa Advanced Authentication, the company’s real time risk scoring...

Researcher Develops Small Device to Intercept, Modify Electronic Payments

With bank fraud and attacks against financial institutions and online banking applications having turned into an epidemic, researchers, banks and other concerned parties have been looking for new ways to protect the integrity of financial transactions. A researcher at the University of Cambridge...

SA-CONTRIB-2010-077 - Sage Pay (former Protx) Direct Payment Gateway for Ubercart - Information Disclosure

The Sage Pay Direct Payment Gateway for Ubercart ucprotxvspdirect processes credit card transactions in Ubercart stores using the Sage Pay Direct service. The module may show remote 3-D Secure pages to the user in an iframe when their bank supports the Verified by Visa or MasterCard SecureCode...

[Full-disclosure] User privilege escalation exploit.

Vendor: CyberSource Version: Business Center, Essentials/Small Business, https://businesscenter.cybersource.com/ Severity: Vulnerability allows malicious employees or comprimised accounts to steal money. Vendor Status: Notified, expects to fix issue some time in 2006. Overview: Business Center is...