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A common browser-based malware attack often targeted at online banking sites has now been configured to attempt and phish credit card...

Global Payments, a publicly traded payment processing company, recently announced that they had identified unauthorized access into their...

An easier-to-remember alternative to passwords, passphrases are a sequence of random words that should provide more security than a...

Prepaid card provider Green Dot Corp. recently announced their acquisition of Loopt, a location-based mobile app, for $43.4 million....

A recent report from CIFAS, a membership association focused on fraud prevention in the UK, found that incidences of identity fraud...

Facebook recently formed an agreement with Bango, a mobile payments company based in the UK, to enable purchases directly from the...

A web security firm recently uncovered and made public the fact that they were able to gain access to the Google Wallet application by...

A patent filed by Microsoft was recently released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office detailing a mobile wallet and payment service....

Visa is confident in the future of mobile payments as they are planning to showcase mobile contactless payments at the 2012 Olympics in...

Until just recently Google Wallet could only be used with NFC-enabled phones offered by Sprint, but AT&T customers can now also use...

PayPal is currently trialing their in-store payment service in about 50 Home Depot stores but will be expanding to over 2,000 Home Depot...

A recent survey by KPMG found that 23 percent of U.S. consumers are “very willing” to use their mobile phone as a wallet while more...

Since launch Google Wallet has been available on the Samsung Nexus smartphone offered by Sprint, but when Verizon started offering the...

eBay’s CEO, John Donahoe, announced that PayPal is projecting their mobile payments volume to hit $7 billion globally in 2012 after...

A fraudster was sentenced to over 17 years in prison for devising a scam where he registered fake debt collection companies to gain...

Vladimir Zdorovenin was recently extradited to the United States on multiple charges after spreading malware and perpetrating various...

A woman working for the New York State Housing Trust Fund stole $944,000 from 2004 to 2011 by altering money orders given to her employer...

Zappos, the large online shoe retailer owned by Amazon, announced a data breach on January 15th compromising 24 million consumer records....

Six members of a Japanese fraud ring were arrested by police after distributing malware that rendered a victim’s computer unusable until...

According to some security experts fraud resulting from card skimming will further increase in 2012 as fraud rings continue to exploit...