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Citi customers are advised to upgrade iPhone app to evade data breach

July 27, 2010 - 1:50am | News | Mobile finances

On Monday the Wall Street Journal reported a glitch in the mobile banking app provided by Citi for iPhones which makes the sensitive information to be stored on the devices or PCs. After this report Citigroup Inc provided a statement where it said that the glitch had been fixed.

Citi spokeswoman Natalie Riper said on Monday its U.S. Citi Mobile iPhone banking program may have also saved account information on personal computers that customers hooked up to their phones.

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China becomes stricter towards cybercrimes, 11 violators were sentenced

December 17, 2009 - 6:57am | Fraud | News

On Wednesday a Chinese court sentenced 11 cybercriminals who participated in writing and distributing Trojan horse viruses meant to steal online game account passwords, as reported by the local media sources.

Xinhua media agency says that the crooks who stole login information for more than 5 million game accounts, were given prison sentences of up to three years and were fined a total of 830,000 Chinese yuan (US$120,000). Dozens of other members of the ring, which is suspected of 30 million yuan ($4.4 million) in crime, are expected to be sentenced soon.

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32 million accounts at RockYou were hacked, MySpace and others affected

December 15, 2009 - 5:17am | Fraud | News

On Monday the cyber space was struck with the reports that 32 million user accounts at the popular social networking site RockYou had been hacked. The situation is worsened by the fact that RockYou are storing all user account data in plain text in their database, exposing all that information to attackers. RockYou have yet to inform users of the breach.

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Data breaches in France were uncovered in 92% of cases

September 10, 2009 - 7:15am | Figures | News

According to a recent study titled “The 2009 Annual Study: France Enterprise Encryption Trends” and commissioned by PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, 67% of French organizations have been hit by at least one data breach incident within the last year, with 18% having been hit by more than five incidents. The study says that almost all the cases (92%) of the data breaches were not disclosed as there was no legal or regulatory requirement to do so.

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Internet surfers will be informed of being tracked by ad agencies

July 2, 2009 - 11:39am | Law aspects | News

Under the pressure of probable examination of online advertising by Congress and the Federal Trade Commission, trade associations representing 5,000 companies have adopted new guidelines regarding the track of consumer behavior for advertising purposes. The consortium which comprises the American Association of Advertising Agencies, Association of National Advertisers, and other agencies are promising to make the tracking of consumer behavior transparent.

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F-Secure introduces data protection for Windows Mobile devices

June 17, 2009 - 9:18am | Fraud | News

Protecting smartphones against loss and infection by mobile malware is more important than ever. More and more people and businesses are using sophisticated smartphones where they keep highly confidential messages and pictures, banking details, contact information, e-mails and business projects. Tens of millions of mobile phones were lost or stolen in 2008, with the UK alone reporting 10,000 stolen every month.

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Identity Theft Manifesto advises on how to protect personal data

May 26, 2009 - 4:36am | Fraud | News

A new website providing real life advices how to protect against identity theft was launched on the internet. The "Identity Theft Manifesto" takes an in-depth look at ID theft, from how bad guys get your personal information all the way to how you can repair your damaged credit.

Identity Theft Manifesto was created by a woman who in 2006 found herself a victim of ID theft. She says during a job application background check, her social security came back registered to a man living in Arizona.

fraud | Identity Theft Manifesto | personal information | scam | sensitive information

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An email from a Facebook friend turned a phishing attack for some

April 30, 2009 - 2:58am | Fraud | News

A phishing attack hit Facebook users on Wednesday as reported by the PCWorld. Using phoney e-mail messages, appearing to come from Facebook, cybercrooks were trying to lure upright subscribers into giving away their personal sensitive information.

The messages with the Subject line “Hello” pretended to come from a friend according to TechCrunch, which first reported the attack.

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PayPal subscribed Clickair for its payment services

March 9, 2009 - 6:11am | News | Payment systems

A Spanish airline company Clickair which offers its customers low fares for the travel tickets announced that it subscribed for PayPal payment services and thus expanded its options for paying for airline tickets on any of its European destinations.

Now customers can complete their purchases online using just their PayPal username (email address) and password.

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Heartland believes itself to be innocent and will fight lawsuits

February 27, 2009 - 3:39am | News | Payment systems

Top executives at Heartland Payment Systems provided more details on the issue of the company’s colossal data breached that heavily impacted related entities. The managers also made a statement that Heartland will fight ensuing lawsuits stemming from the incident.

According to Heartland chairman and CEO Bob Carr the malware that penetrated into the company systems could read and collect unencrypted data in motion.

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