E-Commerce News: ID Security

Breaches Make a Mockery of PCI Security Standards

Tuesday - May 13, 2008

The restaurant-slash-arcade-slash-bar Dave & Buster's is the latest U.S. outlet to suffer a breach of its credit card processing system. Hackers based in Ukraine and Estonia -- assisted by a guy in Miami -- apparently installed packet sniffer malware at the point of sale systems in several D&B outlets, which siphoned off "Track 2" data as the information was being transmitted over the company's network from the point of sale server to a data processor's server. [More...]

Hacker Exposes 6 Million Chileans' Data to Make a Point

Tuesday - May 13, 2008

A prosecutor was appointed Monday to investigate how a computer hacker accessed government data for 6 million Chileans and posted it to the Internet. Prosecutor Jose Ignacio Escobar, a specialist in high-tech crime, opened the probe as the government announced plans to step up data protection. [More...]

The Art of Data Management Compliance, Part 3: Executing Processes

Monday - April 28, 2008

Data management rules and regulations have become a major concern for businesses, due in large part to increasing oversight that often requires organizations to invest in new technologies in order to address compliance issues. However, the promise of enterprise technologies as a solution to the demands of data management compliance will go unmet absent a context of sound policy and strategic planning. [More...]

The Art of Data Management Compliance, Part 2: Guarding Against Theft

Sunday - April 27, 2008

Identity theft, a cyber-crime causing inestimable damage for scores of ordinary citizens, has prompted passage of the federal FACT Act Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, issued this year. Part of the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, the rule aims to combat the scourge of identity theft, which each year victimizes 8.3 million Americans for a total of $15.6 billion in losses, according to the FTC. [More...]

Expert: Domain Name Redirects Open Door for Hackers

Monday - April 21, 2008

Internet service providers that serve advertising when a user requests a Web page that doesn't exist are exposing their users to a giant security breach, according to security researcher Dan Kaminsky. The vulnerability resulting from the practice, which is an increasingly common way for ISPs to make money from users' typos, was identified last week on Earthlink by Kaminsky. [More...]

Struggling to Comply With PCI Standards? Start With SSO

Monday - April 21, 2008

Since 2005, millions of citizens have been affected by reported and unreported data breaches at payment processors, banks and retailers -- but the nation was still stunned when news broke out about the TJX data breach. This has indeed been a larger problem than most recognize, with some 88 million consumers affected by data breaches in the past two years alone, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. [More...]

Publishers, Advertisers, Consumers Pick Sides in Online Tracking Debate

Thursday - April 17, 2008

A firestorm of fury has erupted over behavioral tracking -- the tracking of consumers online by marketing companies and advertisers to serve them up with targeted advertisements when they're on the Web. Both consumer organizations and trade and industry groups have responded to the Federal Trade Commission's call for comments on its proposal to control behavioral tracking. [More...]

Well-Worn Passwords Are Gold Mines for Hackers

Thursday - April 17, 2008

Using the same password for multiple Web pages is the Internet-era equivalent of having the same key for your home, car and bank safe-deposit box. Even though a universal password is like gold for cyber-crooks because they can use it to steal all of a person's sensitive data at once, nearly half the Internet users queried in a new survey said they use just one password for all their online accounts. [More...]

Smarter Than Your Average Card

Thursday - April 17, 2008

Think having a credit or debit card with your photo on it is cool? Well, how about a card the same size and thickness as a credit card, with a window that shows a passcode, and with a public key infrastructure chip on it? When you need to use the card, press on its switch and the PKI chip will run an algorithm that generates a one-time passcode for you to use. [More...]

It's Almost Tax Day: Do You Know Where Your Identity Is?

Monday - April 14, 2008

Spending your tax refund before it arrives? You might want to rethink that plan -- and not just because it's fiscally imprudent. There is a growing chance that this tax season you'll learn for the first time that you were the victim of identity theft at some point during the last year. [More...]

Yahoo Scrambles, Scrabble Scraps, Chertoff Coaxes

Friday - April 11, 2008

Unwilling to believe that resistance to a Microsoft takeover is futile, Yahoo is throwing a lot of strategies at the wall to see what sticks. Its latest effort is a trial advertising partnership with Google -- a two-week test of its AdSense service. Yahoo plans to run Google ads alongside up to 3 percent of the search results generated on Yahoo Web properties in the U.S. [More...]

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