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The credit card has unveiled its today’s fee card that has a built-in biometric fingerprint scanner, permitting customers to authorize payments with their fingerprint credit card, without requiring a PIN code or a signature. The organization is already trying out the new biometric price playing cards, mixed with the onboard chips, in South Africa and […]
The tour company Roberts Hawaii is warning its customers about a security breach that may affect people who purchased tours and other services on its website. Did you visit the Hawaii in last year? The tour company Roberts Hawaii is warning its customers about a data breach that may affect people who purchased tours from July […]
Short Bytes: Personal information like credit cards, emails, IP address, corporate accounts, and other information are stolen from people and openly sold on the dark web. An infographic shows the 2016 price tags for such information. An average VISA or MasterCard credit is sold for as low as £11 ($13.67) on the dark web in the […]
As India tries an upgrade to a cashless society, cyber protection experts have raised critical concerns and found out how to discover credit card data – including expiration dates and CVV numbers – in just 6 Seconds. And what is greater thrilling? The hack makes use of not anything more than guesswork by way of […]
According to the latest research [Pdf] carried out by the University of Newcastle in the UK, hackers only require 6 seconds’ time to acquire sensitive details about your VISA credit or debit card along with its security code and expiry date. This particular study was published in the IEE Security & Privacy journal. As per the […]
Short Bytes: A new attack mechanism, called Distributed Guessing Attack, can steal your credit and debit card details in as few as six seconds. This assault exploits two basic security flaws in the online payment systems–unlimited guesses on payment pages and variation in the payment data fields. Today, different kinds of cards have become the de […]
Some 3.2 million debit cards issued by India’s biggest banks may be exposed to a malware-induced security breakdown, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Oct. 20. Most of these cards belong to State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, Yes Bank and ICICI Bank. Recently various State Bank of India’s debit card holders got surprised […]
Roman Seleznev, aka “Track2,” was found guilty of 38 counts relating to fraud and theft. On Thursday, a federal jury in Seattle found Roman Seleznev guilty of stealing millions of credit card numbers and selling them online to other fraudsters. Seleznev, 32, is the son of Russian Parliament member Valery Seleznev. Seleznev, who occasionally went by […]
I had almost forgotten about my experience with Worldpay’s Merchant Portal from just over a year ago, but my recent post regarding another payment processor helped to refresh my memory. I occasionally help one of my family members’ small business with almost anything technology-related, including their e-commerce solution. In this case, I was helping them switch their payment gateway […]
Scammers installing credit card skimmer device caught on CCTV by Police An incredibly quick act of installing debit/credit stealing device was caught by the CCTV cameras, which were installed at a petrol station in Miami-Dade, US. Miami Beach Police identified that scammers are equipped with such effective credit and debit card stealing tactics that it […]
Short Bytes: Skimming is an effective technique used by thieves to steal credit card information from old and classic debit/credit card scanners. Recently, in Miami, two people were caught on camera who placed a skimmer on a credit card scanner in less than three seconds. Surprisingly, turning a regular credit card reader into a device […]
Stealing PINs and pillaging bank accounts are both trivial. Credit card users could have their PINs stolen, and merchants could have their bank accounts pillaged, in a set of attacks demonstrated by researchers Karsten Nohl and Fabian Bräunlein at the Chaos Computing Club security conference. Much research has been done into the chips found on credit […]
The Chicago-based hotel chain, Hyatt, has discovered a virus in their payment processing system which is used to process payments to some of its hotel locations. The company soon alerted its guests to check their credit card statements for any unauthorized payments and report it to the authorities immediately. “As soon as Hyatt discovered the […]
Short Bytes: EMV credit cards have till now been assumed to be unhackable. The security professor from the University of California explains how it is NOT so. With the advancing technology and due time has given anything and everything can be hacked. We have already seen some of such events like the car-hacking, whole corporates brought […]
America’s Thrift Stores said this week that it has been the victim of a malware-driven cyberattack by Eastern European criminals who stole credit card data from the donations-based retailer. “This breach allowed criminals from Eastern Europe unauthorized access to some payment card numbers,” the company said in a statement. “This virus/malware is one of several […]
In August, we reported how Pentagon had its unclassified emailing server hacked allegedly by Russian hackers with a sophisticated phishing attack. Now, reportedly the computer systems of Pentagon’s food court were infiltrated by hackers and resultantly the bank details of an unspecified number of employees got leaked. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/homeland-security-credit-cards-starbucks/”]Homeland Security Credit Cards Used to Buy Starbucks […]
On 25th April, 2015, Indonesian hackers going with the group handle of Gantengers Crew hacked and defaced the Online Resources domain of US based Financial Services Company MasterCard. Hackers left a deface page along with a note on the website, but the reason for targeting MasterCard website wasn’t mentioned anywhere. It’s not clear if the hackers had access to user’ […]
Visa, famed payment processing company, will be rolling out its new software with location-tracking capabilities this summer. It will allow banks to automatically know the cardholder’s current location through the location-tracking function present in almost all smartphones. This may sound like the bank becoming your “big brother” however, it will be immensely helpful for cardholders […]
Your iPad or iPhone’s camera has become immensely powerful after the emergence of iOS 8 Safari’s new version. Its most astounding feature is that you can use it for scanning your credit card details through camera to make payments online. Ensuing Apple’s WWDC keynote released at the start of this week, various supplementary iOS 8 […]