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Debit card info top of hacker wish list 
By Brett Winterford | Apr 15, 2009 | Comment Now 
A new report shows hackers are focusing more of their efforts on financial services companies, with debit card data becoming the main attraction.
 
Web Hosting Talk payment system hack revealed 
By Ry Crozier | Apr 9, 2009 | Comment Now 
A hacker has dumped active credit card numbers of users of the popular Web Hosting Talk forums online less than 24 hours after the site restored the lion’s share of data ...
 
Oz victims in the dark about credit card leak 
By Brett Winterford | Mar 23, 2009 | Comment Now 
Australians whose credit card details and other personal data have been exposed on the public Internet since Friday are yet to be contacted by their credit card merchants or ...
 
Federal Police swings into action on credit card leak 
By Brett Winterford | Mar 20, 2009 | Comment Now 
Officers from the Australian Federal Police have swung into action to mitigate the fallout from the exposure of about 19,000 credit card numbers, as uncovered by an Australian ...
 
Aussie stumbles on 19,000 exposed credit card numbers 
By Ry Crozier | Mar 20, 2009 | Comment Now 
A defunct payment gateway has exposed as many as 19,000 credit card numbers, including up to 60 Australian numbers.
 
Tanner: IT critical to productivity 
By Brett Winterford | Mar 12, 2009 | Comment Now 
Australia's IT and Communications industry has an ally in Federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner, if his speech today on productivity is any indication.
 
HSBC steps up fraud detection 
By Phil Muncaster | Jan 20, 2009 | Comment Now 
News that HSBC is introducing technology to screen all card transactions for potential fraud has been broadly welcomed by experts as a necessary step in the fight against ...
 
Secrets of the underground economy 
By Kathryn Small | Dec 1, 2008 | Comment Now 
In IRC channels and web-based forums, the underground economy is thriving, according to the latest year-long report by Symantec. Find out how much a botnet or a set of credit ...
 
FBI wipes out online credit card ring 
By Iain Thomson | Oct 17, 2008 | Comment Now 
The FBI has announced that it has concluded a two year investigation into an online market for stolen credit card data behind millions of dollars of fraud.
 
PC holding bank data sold on ebay  
By Rosalie Marshall | Aug 27, 2008 | Comment Now 
A computer holding bank customers' credit card data has been sold on eBay for US$75.
 
Network card crashes Dublin air traffic control 
By Iain Thomson | Jul 21, 2008 | Comment Now 
A faulty network card shut down Dublin airport after air traffic control (ATC) was unable to track the location of incoming planes.
 
Researchers crack London tube card security 
By Andrew Charlesworth | Jun 26, 2008 | Comment Now 
Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands have successfully cracked the security of the Oyster card used for fare payments on buses and tubes in London..
 
gotalk acquires Aussie phone card company World Telecom 
Apr 3, 2008 | Comment Now 
Following the 2007 acquisition of Telstra’s international phonecards - Say G’day and Super Buzz – Australian-based telecommunication provider, gotalk, has acquired one of ...
 
Stolen credit card portal uncovered 
By Robert Jaques | Mar 27, 2008 | Comment Now 
Security experts have discovered an underground exchange promoting the sale of fraudulent credit card data with guarantees and volume discounts for large-scale fraudsters..
 
SanDisk boosts SD card line 
Feb 4, 2008 | Comment Now 
Bigger and faster than ever before.
 
FaceTime uncovers online credit card stash 
By Clement James | Dec 10, 2007 | Comment Now 
FaceTime Security Labs has discovered a large collection of stolen credit card details posted on a warez forum..
 
Hackers turbocharge password cracks with nVidia card 
By Robert Jaques | Oct 30, 2007 | Comment Now 
NVidia's GeForce 8800 graphics card could be utilised to "dramatically" reduce the time needed by hackers to perform brute-force password cracks, security experts have warned.
 
Panasonic unveils 8GB SD card 
By Clement James | Aug 1, 2007 | Comment Now 
US-based electronics firm Panasonic has unveiled an 8GB SD memory card.
 
Scammers use charity donations to test card numbers 
Jul 17, 2007 | Comment Now 
Watch out for small unauthorised transactions.
 
World of Warcraft gets own credit card 
May 21, 2007 | Comment Now 
World of Warcraft credit card can be used to buy game time.
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