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Identity theft protection services promise to have your back against cybercriminals looking to steal your data. But they don’t actually stop them from taking your identity. Are they worth it, then? We say no.
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Imagine I want to identify users more securely than using username/password, e.g. a hardware token. However, I can’t issue smartcards to them. Is it a good idea to try to use NFC-enabled bank cards for that purpose, e.g. with… Continue reading Is identification with NFC bank cards feasible?
Another day, another data breach. This time a fast-fashion retailer has fallen victim to payment card breach.
American clothes retailer Forever 21 announced on Tuesday that the company had suffered a security breach that allowed unknown hackers to gai… Continue reading Forever 21 Warns Shoppers of Payment Card Breach at Some Stores
Whole Foods says it has resolved a data breach that it reported last month, in which the company detected unauthorized access to credit card information in some point-of-sale systems. The grocery chain released a statement Friday that it investigated the incident with law enforcement and “a leading cyber security forensics firm.” The company said it has stopped the unauthorized access and replaced the compromised point-of-sale systems. Whole Foods detected unauthorized software on its payment systems that serve taprooms and restaurants at some of its stores, the statement said. The company says those payment systems are separate from its main grocery store point-of-sale systems. “The software copied payment card information—which could have included payment card account number, card expiration date, internal verification code, and cardholder name—of customers who used a payment card at these venues,” the company said. Whole Foods has not said how many customers may have been impacted, but did say that the impact falls […]
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After reading a while about how most credit cards work it appears to me that they are amongst the most insecure way of payments.
If your card is stolen physically then nothing is stopping anyone to misuse it since any and a… Continue reading How is a credit card secure? [on hold]
Technology could mean the end of sharing your credit card details with vendors.
David Bisson reports.
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For a solution that we are developing for the hospitality industry, we need to save customer credit card information, and show this to the hotel for them to manually process the payment later.
I have read all these questions and answers:
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If I am issued a new card due to a lost or stolen card with American Express Platinum Card will the first 10 numbers of the account number stay the same and only the last five change or do they still use the first set of 10 n… Continue reading Amex cc questions
I ask this question in light of the recent Equifax hacking. I’m sure people in China get hacked all the time, but I was recently talking to someone from there and they told me they never walk around with a wallet. Everything … Continue reading How do the Chinese keep information secure?
It’s ironic—the company that offers credit monitoring and ID theft protection solutions has itself been compromised, exposing personal information of as many as 143 million Americans—that’s almost half the country.
Equifax, one of the three largest credit reporting firm in the United States, admitted today that it had suffered a massive data breach somewhere between mid-May and July this year
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