Discover Identity Theft Protection helps consumers protect their personal information

Discover announced Discover Identity Theft Protection, a fee-based identity theft protection product that provides individuals with credit and identity monitoring, alerts and fraud resolution services, is available to all U.S. consumers. This expansion… Continue reading Discover Identity Theft Protection helps consumers protect their personal information

American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa launch faster and more secure online checkout

American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa announced the arrival of faster, more secure online checkout based on the new EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) industry standard, establishing a simplified way for card payments to be made across web and … Continue reading American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa launch faster and more secure online checkout

Untold Number of Discover Card Account Holders Notified of Data Breach

An undisclosed number of Discover card account holders have learned of a data breach that might have compromised their account information. According to Bleeping Computer, Discover Financial Services first learned of the security incident on 13 August … Continue reading Untold Number of Discover Card Account Holders Notified of Data Breach

Identity theft concerns won’t hold back holiday shopping

Despite concerns about identity theft and fraud, consumers don’t plan to curb their holiday shopping, according to Discover. While 62 percent of consumers are very or moderately concerned about identify theft or fraud this holiday season, 73 percent, s… Continue reading Identity theft concerns won’t hold back holiday shopping

IcedID – New Banking Trojan targets US-based companies with web injects

The malware research team in the UAB Computer Forensics Research Lab is widening its horizon and is always on the look out for new malware families. While researching new malware families, Arsh Arora, Ph.D. Candidate at UAB, found some chatter about t… Continue reading IcedID – New Banking Trojan targets US-based companies with web injects