Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Government Payment Service Inc. — a company used by thousands of U.S. In January 2018, GovPayNet was acquired by Securus Technologies , a Carrollton, Texas- based company that provides telecommunications services to prisons and helps law enforcement personnel keep tabs on mobile devices used by former inmates.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The company was not able to issue invoices and accept loyalty cards as a result of the attack that took place last Friday, on February 14, at 22:00, local time. All payments are secure, whether it is a cash payment, an INA card or a bank card. “Market supply is secure.

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Ransomware Cyber Attacks Mobile Advertising 122

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2022

Share your online store’s policies and run a test payment. Again, make a trial payment to see what data you have access to. Understanding where to look for refused eCommerce payments and client data ahead of time will help you speed up the review procedure. Source . .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2018

As the volume of both card-based payments and digital payments continue to grow significantly year-on-year, the importance of securing sensitive card data (and in particular the primary account number or PAN) has never been a more critical and challenging task.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2021

FortiGuard Labs researchers who reported the attacks noticed that the variant of ransomware employed in the attacks not only encrypts certain files but also destroys others. This variant not only encrypts certain files but also destroys others, rendering them unrecoverable. ” concludes Fortinet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

Canadian Freedom Mobile mobile network operator exposed the details of many customers, including their payment card data. Security researchers at vpnMentor discovered an unprotected database containing information belonging to Freedom Mobile customers. million users of the mobile network operator.

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Mobile Data breaches Retail Accountability 87

Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2021

Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile , a mobile parking app that’s popular in North America. ” The statement continues: “Our investigation indicates that no sensitive data or Payment Card Information, which we encrypt, was affected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2021

Last year Amazon announced the adoption of a game changer for payments; Amazon One, which allows shoppers to pay at stores by placing their palm over a scanning device when they walk in the door or when they check out. They’ve done it through new ways like contactless and lately mobile payments. billion payments.

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Retail Banking Technology Mobile 77

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In my recent blog on the evolving PCI SSC initiatives in 2018, “ Minor on PCI DSS, major on almost everything else ,” I outlined how the organisation is covering new areas to reflect the migration from physical card payments to online digital payments.

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Mobile Software Encryption Risk 66

Identity IQ

OCTOBER 17, 2022

How Do You Protect Yourself from Credit Card Skimmers? A credit card skimmer is a device installed onto card readers that collects the card’s data. A credit card skimmer is a device installed onto card readers that collects the card’s data. Identifying Credit Card Skimmers. IdentityIQ.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

businesses are taking advantage of digital technologies like cloud, mobile, and IoT to digitally transform their operations. Increased contactless and mobile payments introduce bigger risks. Labelled Industry 4.0, Even “traditional banks” seek to drive more revenue from digital products, personalized services and experiences.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 1, 2023

Cybersecurity is practice of protecting information technology (IT) infrastructure assets such as computers, networks, mobile devices, servers, hardware, software, and data (personal & financial) against attacks, breaches and unauthorised access. to protect sensitive data. Online banking phishing scams have advanced constantly.

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SecureList

APRIL 2, 2021

into making a call or a money transfer, or giving out payment details. They include imitating the “blue screen of death” (BSOD) in the browser, false warnings about system errors or detected viruses, threats to encrypt files, legal liability notices, and many others. Mobile version of fake MVD websites.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 31, 2018

Air Canada is advising customers to reset their passwords on their mobile application after detecting a potential data breach of customer records. We detected unusual login behavior with Air Canada’s mobile App between Aug. In a notice, Air Canada says that a data breach it discovered last week impacted 20,000 profiles. 22-24, 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 26, 2018

Previous stories here on the proliferation of card-skimming devices hidden inside fuel pumps have offered a multitude of security tips for readers looking to minimize their chances of becoming the next victim, such as favoring filling stations that use security cameras and tamper-evident tape on their pumps. Image: SAPD.

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Banking Accountability Manufacturing Scams 190

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES divya Tue, 02/28/2023 - 06:31 CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES an evolution of money and payments CBDC, or Central Bank Digital Currency, is a trending topic in the financial industry. Part 1 – what CBDC is all about There is a constant development and progression of payment methods and systems over time.

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Banking Cryptocurrency Financial Services Accountability 71

Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. AMT Games is a mobile and browser game developer based in China. Transaction data encompassed price, item purchased, time of purchase, payment provider, and in some cases IP address of the buyer. What’s Happening?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 17, 2022

But that spending surge has brought with it a corresponding rise in payment security challenges. eSecurity Planet sat down with Dustin White, chief risk data officer at Visa, to discuss some of the steps the credit card and online payment giant has taken to combat fraud and improve cybersecurity. Leveraging Tokens.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Researchers discovered a series of incidents involving software credit card skimmer used by Magecart to hit the booking websites of hotel chains. The JavaScript code was used to load a remote script on their payment page since August 9. . js that contains the card skimmer code. com / gtm [. ]

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

Russian police have detained the organizers of a criminal group that focused on reissuing SIM cards and stealing money from Russian banking customers. At the next stage, the fraudsters used an underground SIM card recovery service, which is quite popular on the Darknet. They used a forged driving license as an ID.

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Banking Mobile Accountability Advertising 75

Approachable Cyber Threats

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The benefits of using digital banking are numerous: ❯ No need to visit a physical bank branch or wait in line; ❯ Customers access 24/7 from any device with an internet connection; ❯ Remote check deposits using smartphones; and ❯ Peer-to-peer transfers and payments.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 16, 2019

In many markets, this comes in the wider context that e-commerce – and mobile commerce in particular – are seeing rapid growth, but putting long-term aspirations at risk by continually disappointing customers with unstable on-boarding and checkout processes , or failing to assure customers they are processing their data securely.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 7, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Just over one year since rebranding in September 2020 , identity, payments and data protection leader Entrust this week previewed upcoming innovations and reviewed key milestones from a pivotal year. The global pandemic has been fueling digital transformation, and it’s moving faster every day.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While it performs similarly to a regular wallet, it stores digital assets in the form of cryptographic keys rather than actual cash or credit cards. These wallets are available in a variety of formats, including hardware wallets, online wallets, mobile wallets, and desktop wallets. Secure your network, device.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 25, 2019

With an estimated $500 billion retail market spend per year, what’s next for the payments industry as a whole. The answer is frictionless payments. Cashierless Amazon Go stores have popped up in several locations featuring self-checkout and mobile payments. Security as Frictionless as Checkout.

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Digital transformation Retail Encryption Banking 54

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In addition, the increasing speed of technology innovation has lead to a broader diversity of payment methods in recent years with new platforms for mobile payments continuing to be deployed. Digital payment data is created, shared and stored in more places than ever before. Happy (and safe!) holiday shopping.

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Risk Retail Digital transformation Authentication 90

Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

If you use the legacy email and password login, your passwords are encrypted, but we highly encourage that you change it. We do not store any credit card or payment related information on our servers.” .” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption. User ID and Credit Card Photo Uploads.

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Passwords Accountability Media Identity Theft 125

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 15, 2018

Making payments even in a face-to-face environment is no longer just about using magnetic stripe or chip cards where the security, operating rules, and risks have been long established and well understood by all the actors involved. This has created new complexities to manage and new forms of risk to mitigate.

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IoT Technology Mobile Risk 54

Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2018

million mobile app users. million mobile app users. The news was confirmed by Air Canada that revealed to have detected unusual login behaviour with Air Canada’s mobile App between Aug. 22-24, 2018, it added that financial data was protected but invited to remain vigilant for fraudulent credit card transactions.

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Data breaches Mobile Financial Services Advertising 58

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Magecart Group 12, known for skimming payment information from online shoppers, now uses PHP web shells to gain remote administrative access to the sites under attack to steal credit card data, rather than using their previously favored JavaScript code. In 2020, OFAC announced that they would supervise any payment to ransomware groups.

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Cryptocurrency Banking Cybercrime Ransomware 106

Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

The campaign recently spotted by the experts at Juniper Threat Labs aimed at stealing credentials and payment-card data from Amazon.com, American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, Discover, eBay, E-Trade, J.P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, T-Mobile, USAA, Verizon Wireless, Wells Fargo and others. dat” files. .

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Banking Encryption Malware Wireless 114

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A typical website or mobile web app consumer experience today gets cobbled together with software components supplied by dozens of different software contractors. For 20 years now, we’ve been on a continuous march towards outsourcing the software development that make worldwide web and mobile web functions possible.

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Retail Digital transformation Advertising Software 115

Identity IQ

JANUARY 30, 2024

Consider using a password manager , which can automatically create strong, unique passwords and help keep them safe and encrypted. When you enable this feature, you’ll be required to provide a second verification when you log in using your mobile device or email. Turn on 2FA for online games that offer it.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Whether at home or out and about, Wi-Fi has become something we have come to rely on for work and pleasure, while mobile operators increasingly use ‘hand-over’ to W-Fi networks as a way of meeting demand for capacity. Anyone deploying a Wi-Fi network should be aware of these top eight Wi-Fi risks. Wi-Fi Password Cracking. Eavesdropping.

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Wireless Passwords Mobile Risk 98

SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In the past, many actors would join forces to attack and encrypt as many organizations around the world as possible. Mobile banking Trojans on the rise. Security remains the biggest problem for users who want to make regular mobile payments. Rise of threat to online payment systems. million downloads.

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