News tagged with card numbers
UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.
Cyber criminals targeting small businesses
Sep 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small and medium-sized businesses that don't have the resources to keep updating their computer security, according to federal authorities.
Hacker pleads guilty to huge theft of card numbers
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A computer hacker could spend more than 15 years in prison now that he has pleaded guilty to some of the largest thefts of credit card numbers.
Radisson computers accessed without permission
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Radisson Hotels & Resorts said Wednesday its computer systems have been accessed without authorization, affecting an unknown number of people.
Indictment of card hacker unlikely to end thefts
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- This week's indictment of a hacker believed responsible for the biggest retail-store data breaches in U.S. history doesn't necessarily make shoppers safer from having their credit card numbers plundered.
Some Twitter staff accounts reportedly hacked
Jul 15, 2009 |
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A hacker believed to have struck celebrity Twitter accounts previously has reportedly broken into accounts of the microblogging service's workers including co-founder Evan Williams.
A few pennies for your thoughts -- and credit card
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- One economy apparently isn't hurting these days - the one run by identity thieves in the dark corners of the Internet.
Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers
Apr 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school's three hospitals.
Bogus security software growing threat: Microsoft
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Hackers are increasingly hiding viruses in bogus computer security software to trick people into installing treacherous programs on machines, Microsoft warned on Wednesday.
Breaches emphasize need for scanning, encryption
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Recent news reports indicate a computer containing confidential information about the helicopter that transports President Barack Obama was breached by a computer in Iran. In January, Heartland Payment Systems, a company ...
