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Canada’s Regional Fraud Bureau along with Canadian police departments and the U.S. Secret Service carried out a raid on suspected...

Two men from Romania were extradited to the United States last May after being accused of running a fraud operation that installed...

Phishing scams can often be convincing, and a recent case of a phishing campaign emulating a legitimate Microsoft email about changes to...

Facebook recently announced that they uncovered an incident where fraudsters used compromised email addresses to scrape lists of Facebook...

According to a recent report from security firm RSA, phishing attacks in the first half of 2012 have accounted for more than $687 million...

A hacker recently pointed out that a feature specific to Apple’s iOS operating system leaves a major vulnerability with text messaging...

In a recent report from Juniper Research it was predicted that the total global mobile payment volume will reach $1.3 trillion by 2017...

Competing retailers have formed a new joint venture, the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), to offer a mobile wallet of their own. The...

Chargebacks cost merchants beyond the lost sale and merchandise and in many cases it is in a merchant’s best interest to resolve customer...

Failure to Conduct Proper Email Notifications on Account Usage and Account Changes Costs one Bank over $400,000 Sarasota, FL, July 31,...

After years of litigation over interchange Visa and MasterCard proposed a settlement that would give over $7 billion back to U.S....

Brothers Andrew and Allen Chiu placed $23 million worth of fraudulent orders through FatWallet, a membership shopping community that...

A recent Forbes headline read “Is Click Fraud A Ticking Time Bomb Under Google?” referencing the billions in revenue Google makes each...

The DNSChanger malware, which spread to more than 500,000 devices in the U.S. and 4 million worldwide, redirected the web browsers on...

It was recently revealed that Sprint is preparing a mobile platform and wallet called Touch Wallet and Apple demoed a new addition to...

Although spending on Visa credit cards increased in April and May from a year ago, overall volume processed on U.S. Visa cards was down 3...

Dwolla, an alternative cash based payment network, enables consumers to make retail payments and peer-to-peer transfers over their hybrid...

In June Square announced that they are now processing $6 billion annually while VeriFone and Intuit compete with similar product...

Nearly 6.5 million passwords were posted on a Russian based hacker forum website and on June 6th LinkedIn confirmed that these passwords...

Roberto Sanchez, a former Apple Store employee in New Hampshire, reached a plea bargain to serve three months in jail after intentionally...