Security News

Guessing Credit Card Security Details (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-05 12:25

Researchers have found that they can guess various credit-card-number security details by spreading their guesses around multiple websites so as not to trigger any alarms. From a news article:...

Online credit card fraud up 20% Black Friday to Cyber Monday (Help Net Security)
2016-12-02 12:45

Iovation released new data that shows card-not-present fraud increased significantly from Black Friday to Cyber Monday 2016 when compared to the same period in past years. Research shows a 20...

Crims cram credit card details into product shots on e-shops (The Register)
2016-10-19 04:06

Attackers Hiding Stolen Credit Card Numbers in Images (Threatpost)
2016-10-18 20:14

Researchers say attackers are embedding malicious code in poorly configured Magento sites that hides stolen payment card data in images.

Republican donor site malware skimmed credit cards for six months (ZDNet)
2016-10-18 17:51

Hacked Republican website skimmed donor credit cards for 6 months (ArsTechnica)
2016-10-17 19:36

Web-Based Keylogger Used to Steal Credit Card Data from Popular Sites (Threatpost)
2016-10-06 20:26

Researchers estimate thousands of ecommerce sites are under attack by a single threat actor that has infected servers with a web-based keylogger.

This breakthrough number-changing credit card may help eliminate fraud (ZDNet)
2016-10-06 18:22

Credit Cards with Changing CVVs (Schneier on Security)
2016-10-05 11:12

There's a new French credit card where the CVV code changes every hour....

PCI Council wants upgradeable credit card readers ... next year (The Register)
2016-09-12 01:49