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Hactivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec continue their holiday hacking routine called LulzXmas after stealing sensitive data from...

A ninth-grader in the Memphis, Tennessee area recently pleaded guilty to fraudulent use of credit cards, forgery and criminal...

On December 22nd eBay announced their purchase of BillSAFE, a German online payment company, without disclosing the price or terms of the...

The importance of Cyber Monday in the online channel should not be understated. Cyber Monday 2010 was the first time online spending in...

While the Credit CARD Act of 2009 included several provisions to protect consumers from hidden fees and expiration dates with gift cards,...

Visa recently released their fiscal fourth quarter earnings report detailing how much was spent on Visa credit and debit cards in the...

Financial institutions came up with several new ways of recouping revenue lost from the Durbin debit interchange cap. Such methods...

As the world’s largest social network and the second most visited website it should come as no surprise that Facebook sees a lot of...

A two year operation by the FBI called Operation Ghost Click has led to the arrest of six hackers who had built a botnet of over four...

For several years now fraudsters have been obtaining credit card numbers by hiding skimmers in gas pumps, but a fraud ring from Central...

The high profile data breaches continue in 2011 as Anonymous posted 1,000 user names and passwords taken from the United Nations. A...

On November 28th the credit reporting bureau and global information services company Experian agreed to acquire the identity verification...

In the November 2011 issue of Connect, Transaction Network Service’s dedicated telecommunications industry newsletter, David Montague is...

Sarasota, FL, October 31, 2011/Internal Release/ - Consumers rely on signals from their web browser to ensure a website is legitimate...

Sarasota, FL, October 3, 2011/Internal Release/ - In preparation for the October 1st implementation of the debit card interchange cap...

Retailers and financial institutions prepare for new debit interchange legislation in the United States while several state governments...

We always seem to hear about the successful fraudsters who cheated merchants, but we don’t often hear about the successful merchants in...

Starting April 15th, 2011 MasterCard began enforcing a new set of rules limiting the chargeback rights for issuers when a credit card...

Now more than ever, merchants need to focus on how they can keep customers coming back to their website. Focusing on increasing repeat...

Before you recycle or resell that mobile phone, are you sure it is clear of all your personally identifiable information? Manually...