After more than $75 million in bogus credit card charges, several Cuban nationals in Florida have been arrested with more than 200,000 credit card account numbers, many of which came from the TJX and Polo Ralph Lauren data breaches, according to U.S. Secret Service officials, commenting on Monday’s announced arrests.
The numbers were sent to the […]
Fidelity National suffered the ultimate insider theft when an IT staffer sold about 2.3 million customer records to a marketing firm. But it’s the low-tech way this techie did it that makes it interesting.
When Fidelity National Information Services this week announced that about 2.3 million customer records had been illegally sold to a group of […]
Often transmitting unencrypted confidential customer data over weakly-protected connections, retailers risk privacy and create backdoors for cyber thieves. And yet, no one’s giving the merchants much of a choice.
When retailers make changes to any system that might impact credit-card processing—be it point-of-sale upgrades, OS patches, database changes, connection improvements, etc.—it needs to be tested.
For the […]
Making it unanimous thus far, two federal judges have denied key motions in the lawsuits against retailers accused of violating federal law by printing prohibited information on credit card receipts. This is on top of a third federal judge making a similar ruling earlier this month.
Unless the U.S, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit […]
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Looks like I’m not the only one who thinks Blue Lane has some very interesting technology. InfoWorld just awarded them the 2007 Technology of the Year Award - Congrats !
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