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Simple Google search reveals credit card details
A year after massive security failings were exposed by hosting firm UKFast, consumers’ credit card details are still as openly available as a pair of shoes on the internet, leaving them open to serious fraud and the businesses at risk of costly legal action. Research by internet hosting specialist UKFast has found that the relatively [...]
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British Airways checks in for enhanced fraud prevention
Accertify announced today that British Airways has selected its solution to fight e-commerce fraud and help ensure a high-quality experience for customers. Andrew Warman, Business Support Manager, Asset Protection Group at British Airways, said: “With Accertify’s comprehensive, flexible and efficient solution, our customers can continue to book British Airways with confidence giving them the best [...]
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Smart Payment and Banking Cards shipments to rise to 3.5 billion by 2017
Federal regulators warn that existing statutes may not afford complete protection for consumers from fraud and other losses stemming from their use of mobile payments systems. Current laws governing the use of physical payment cards would cover consumers who lose their phones or incur bogus charges on their phone-based accounts, but the involvement of nonbanking [...]
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Payment services to Pay-by-Phone virtual terminal
IVR Technology Group (ITG) and Fundtech have announced a partnership that expands the functionality of ITG’s IVR Pay-by-Phone virtual terminal. As a result of this partnership end users can turn any push button telephone into their own virtual payment processing terminal by utilizing Fundtech’s TotalTransact credit card gateway technology. The IVR Pay-by-Phone gateway combines ACH [...]
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Cybercrime theft of 500,000 card details could have been prevented
Recent reports on the theft of over half a million financial card details by hackers, could have been avoided if data security had been multi-layered believes Avecto. The Dark Reading newswire reported on a screen-scraping malware infection being investigated by US authorities at the Wyndham Worldwide chain of hotels. Avecto believes that allegations of lax [...]
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