Pairing Privacy and Security with Digital Identities in Retail

As today’s customer expectations for digital shopping continue to escalate, many online retailers are leveraging consumers’ unique digital identities to provide a seamless and secure account registration and login process. However, it’s important to recognize the security and privacy implications...

Latin American ‘Biñeros’ Bond Over Fraudulent Purchase Scheme

A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely and as often as possible. Cybercriminals in the region are making use of problems in the validation process for bank identificatio...

NETELLER Direct Payment API is not vulnerable to reported parameter manipulation

Overview NETELLER Direct Payment API version 4.1.6 and possibly earlier versions were reported to be vulnerable to parameter manipulation via a modified HTTP POST request. After further analysis and discussion with NETELLER, this report was found to be incorrect. The NETELLER Direct Payment API i...

FTC Sues Wyndham Over Breaches Linked to $10m In Fraud

UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined Wyndham Hotels for a string of data breaches that resulted in information on hundreds of thousands of customers being lost to cyber criminals. An FTC complaint, filed on June 26, 2012, asks for “permanent injunctive relief” against Wyndham for...

Visa, MasterCard Warn Of Breach At Card Processor

UPDATE–MasterCard and Visa have confirmed that they are investigating a potentially huge data breach at one of the companies’ payment processors, which the Wall Street Journal has identified as Global Payments Inc. The credit card giants are alerting banks about a breach at a U.S. based card...

XBox Security Chief Says Account Hacks Linked To Phishing, Resale Schemes

In a pattern that is becoming more common, hackers are hijacking XBox Live accounts, then tricking them out with expansion modules and other add-ons before trying to resell them to unwitting third parties. Recent XBox Live account hijacks are most likely the product of phishing and identity theft...

Kitchen Confidential: Mass. Case Lays Bare Unsanitary Data Security Practices

I worked in my share of kitchens when I was younger. I washed dishes, made salads, sous cheffed and worked the grill as a short order cook. And let me say this: one rule you learn when you work in the kitchen is – to borrow a phrase from the folks in ‘Vegas – ‘what happens in the kitchen stays in...

iTunes Users Complain Of Account Hacks

More than six months after reports of wide-scale compromises of accounts at Apple’s popular iTunes online store, there are fresh reports that suggest that the accounts of iTunes users are being used to make fraudulent purchases of music, games and other merchandise. Reports in the Apple forums...

Gang stole credit card details of US Citizens !

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Dozens Charged in $1M Scheme To Fence Apple Goods

UPDATED: The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Wednesday announced the break-up of an identity theft and fencing ring responsible for around $1 million in fraudulent purchases from Apple stores around the country. District Attorney Cyrus Vance and the U.S. Secret Service in a press conferen...