Police make StubHub cybercrime ring arrests
July 24, 2014 - New York authorities have charged six people accused of being part of an international criminal gang which used stolen card data to buy thousands of event tickets through eBay-owned StubHub.
Romanian cybercrime network dismantled
July 18, 2014 - European authorities say they have dismantled a Romanian-dominated cybercrime network that used a host of tactics to steal more than EUR2 million.
Botnet takes advantage of weak passwords to hack POS systems
July 10, 2014 - Security firm FireEye says it has discovered a botnet that is sniffing out point-of-sale systems and using brute force techniques to hack them and steal card data.
The end of verification? Visa Europe posits new age for payment security
July 9, 2014 - Executives at Visa Europe are pondering an overhaul of card security standards as new technologies and consumer preferences for frictionless shopping create demands for a more flexible approach to protecting transactions.
New Cyber Security Survey Shows Only 12% of UK Organisations are Completely Confident their Endpoints are PCI Compliant
July 9, 2014 - Bit9® + Carbon Black, the leader in endpoint threat prevention, detection and response, today announced the results of a cyber security study which show that only 12% of IT organisations in the UK are completely confident that their endpoints are compliant with PCI DSS V.3.0. This points to poor cyber-security safeguards for those systems that process credit card payments and handle customers’ personally identifiable information (PII).
European banks told to avoid bitcoin
July 4, 2014 - Europe's financial institutions should steer clear of virtual currencies such as bitcoin until a regulatory regime is in place, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned.
Idealinvent integrates Prime Factors BCSS into ConnectCore banking platform
July 2, 2014 - Idealinvent, provider of Next Generation banking systems, and Prime Factors, provider of cryptographic data protection platforms, today announced a strategic partnership to introduce the latter's Bank Card Security System (BCSS) and its Card Security and Personalization capabilities into the former's ConnectCore - Card Management offering.
ID Tech launches payment terminal
June 30, 2014 - ID Tech, a leading manufacturer of automated data entry, mobile payment, point of sale, and secure payment devices, has released its PCI 3.x SRED certified key pad and MagStripe reader, the SREDKey.
