security & fraud

Big Banks Ban Bitcoin Purchases Using Credit Cards
Big Banks Ban Bitcoin Purchases Using Credit Cards
February 05, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s valuing is sinking and credit card companies are not helping, with the list of issuers banning bitcoin growing. According to a report in The...

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Diebold, NCR Warn About ATM Hack
Diebold, NCR Warn About ATM Hack
January 29, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

ATM makers Diebold Nixdorf and NCR Corporation are warning that hackers are going after ATM machines in the U.S. with tools, which can result in...

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Aadhaar No Panacea For India’s Ills, Says Economist
Aadhaar No Panacea For India’s Ills, Says Economist
January 22, 2018  |  International

Is India’s push for biometric IDs a bust? According to an article in The New York Times on Sunday (Jan. 21), one economist, Reetika Khera of...

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Holiday eCommerce Fraud Attempts Jumped In 2017
Holiday eCommerce Fraud Attempts Jumped In 2017
January 16, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Attempts to commit online fraud jumped during the holiday season, increasing 22 percent from Thanksgiving to December compared to a year ago. That’s according to...

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OnePlus Users’ Credit Card Info Hacked
OnePlus Users’ Credit Card Info Hacked
January 16, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

Hackers may have infiltrated the consumer website of OnePlus, the Chinese smartphone maker, stealing customers’ credit card information. According to a report in TheNextWeb, the...

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Kraken Down For More Than Two Days For Maintenance
Kraken Down For More Than Two Days For Maintenance
January 15, 2018  |  Safety and Security

Kraken, a large cryptocurrency exchange, was pulled down last week for maintenance that was scheduled to last as long as five hours, but stayed offline...

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Bill Would Give FTC Authority To Police, Fine Credit Bureaus
Bill Would Give FTC Authority To Police, Fine Credit Bureaus
January 11, 2018  |  Regulation

Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner are introducing new legislation that would allow the U.S. government to levy fines on companies that are the...

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Snowden Backs Journalist Who Exposed India’s Aadhaar Breach
Snowden Backs Journalist Who Exposed India’s Aadhaar Breach
January 10, 2018  |  Safety and Security

Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, is calling on the arrests of the people behind the breach of India’s biometric ID system, Aadhaar. According...

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Bank, Tech Groups Lobby For Federal Oversight Of Data Breaches
Bank, Tech Groups Lobby For Federal Oversight Of Data Breaches
January 08, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

A group of financial, retail and technology trade associations are calling on the federal government to oversee data breaches. According to a report in American...

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