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Chip and PIN compatibility leads to insecurity
At last week's CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver Canada researchers showed methods they could use to compromise chip and PIN credit cards. Is backward compatibility creating security holes...
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Four Romanians charged with multimillion-dollar hack of Subway, others
The US Department of Justice has indicted and arrested four Romanians for credit card fraud perpetrated against Subway restaurants and other retailers concluding a three year investigation. Looks like...
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A picked pocket in Mallorca reveals chink in chip-and-PIN security
Researchers at Cambridge University are warning that a issue common to ATMs and point-of-sale terminals could enable attackers to clone secure EMV Chip and PIN cards.
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Monday review: the hot 22 stories of the week
In case you missed any recent stories, here's everything we wrote in the last seven days.
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Monday review - the hot 19 stories of the week
It's that time of the week again - here's your roundup of everything we wrote in the last seven days.
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Small businesses beware! Point-of-sale malware is after you
Malware targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems has been a major trend for the last six months, with a flock of interrelated malware families being sold, shared, exchanged, tweaked and improved by the...
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Monday review - the hot 21 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Data-drained Target hurries to adopt chip-and-PIN cards
The US has been dragging its heels on the expensive, laborious task of swapping its payment infrastructure for the more secure chip-and-PIN security used abroad. Still smarting from recent data theft,...
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Monday review - the hot 17 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Chip-and-PIN should be "Chip-and-Skim," say Cambridge card-cloners
Back in 2011, cryptographers at the University of Cambridge were approached by a man whose bank refused to refund a series of disputed transactions. So they set out to answer the question, "Is it...
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Breach at eBay, bugs in Chip-and-PIN, busts for Blackshades - 60 Sec Security...
Will the breach at eBay beat Adobe for size? Is Chip and PIN really as safe as they say? How many countries took action busting malware crooks? All the answers in 60 Sec Security for 24 May 2014...
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Monday review - the hot 26 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Payment card survey - where does your country sit on the fraud list?
6,159 people were questioned by ACI Worldwide in 20 countries around the world, on a range of topics including incidents of fraud, risky behaviours which may put people at greater fraud risk, the...
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SSCC 154: Fraud, viruses, patches and encryption (in that order!) [PODCAST]
Where does your country sit on the fraud list? Just how much can you trust SMSes on Android? Is Apple serious enough about iOS security? And will Google's End-To-End email encryption plugin save the...
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Trump Hotel chain investigates potential payment card breach
Credit card hackers are said to have targeted a number of hotels, possibly as far back as February 2015.
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Live from the Virus Bulletin conference 2015 [Chet Chat Podcast 216.5]
Find out what the world's threat protection experts talk about when you cloister them in a Prague hotel for three days!
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Hacks! Breaches! Skimming! And some good news, too… [Chet Chat Podcast 225]
Chester's back from vacation, and so is the Chet Chat. We look back at 2015 - and remind you that there's good news amongst the bad!
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Big “carding gang” bust announced by Europol: 105 arrests across 15 countries
15 countries, 105 people, a pile of duty free shops, a stack of cloned cards...and €5 million in glitzy goods
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The crooks don't steal your whole card, which you'd probably notice, but just the chip from it...
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