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Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud
A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.
By Jeremy Kirk | 10 May, 2013 02:28
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LivingSocial gets hacked, 50 million users told to reset passwords
More than 50 million users of the daily deals site LivingSocial are being asked to reset their passwords after hackers attacked the company's servers and potentially made off with personal data.
By Zach Miners | 26 April, 2013 22:47
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Microsoft moves to optional two-factor authentication
Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the log-on service for many of its online and desktop products.
By Joab Jackson | 17 April, 2013 18:02
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Bitcoin storage service, Instawallet, suffers database attack
An online bitcoin storage service, Instawallet, said Wednesday it is accepting claims for stolen bitcoins after the company's database was fraudulently accessed.
By Jeremy Kirk | 04 April, 2013 00:14
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Researchers find new point-of-sale malware called BlackPOS
A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics company based in Russia.
By Lucian Constantin | 28 March, 2013 13:30
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Opinion: The Petraeus scandal and computer ethics
Last week Gen. David Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned in response to what has turned out to be a much bigger scandal than it first appeared.
By Mark Gibbs | 20 November, 2012 15:44
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