Visa: New Tools Could Spot Additional $1.5b In Fraud
Credit card giant Visa Inc. said on Thursday that an update to its anti-fraud technology will make it easier to spot sophisticated credit card fraud that spans national borders.
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Hamburgled: Third Party Breach Spills Customer Data From McDonald’s, Others
UPDATEMcDonald’s has served billions of hamburgers, but thousands of those customers may be regretting their patronage, after the fast food giant acknowledged that contact information for an unknown number of customers was stolen from a third party e-mail marketing firm it uses.
Facebook Announces Hacker’s Cup
Social networking Web site Facebook has announced that they will begin accepting registrations for the 2011 Hacker Cup, the first annual programming and puzzle solving contest open to software engineers, programmers, puzzle solvers and assorted hackers from around the world.
The Federal Trade Commission introduced a framework today that aims to address privacy issues raised by consumers that directly affects how our activity is tracked online. The agency went on to advocate the creation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that could help shape the future of browser security.
A ten year veteran of the U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company pleaded guilty in federal court on November 17 to charges that he stole company secrets, including design documents, worth more than $50 million and sharing them with his new employer: the Chinese division of a U.S. rival of Ford’s.
In an effort to better weigh the security of cloud-based infrastructures, the Cloud Security Alliance has released a new toolkit, the Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Stack. Available as a free download on the organization’s website, the collection consists of three tools: CloudAudit, the Cloud Controls Matrix and the Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire.
There’s more to ears than meets the eye, at least according to recently released report by UK researchers, which finds that ear shape may be a more reliable measure of individuality than the widely-used fingerprint.
A Connecticut man pleaded guilty to automatic teller machine (ATM) fraud on Tuesday following a scheme that conned $4.8 million from a Rhode Island bank over the last few years.
A group of researchers from Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help fund an ongoing project that’s investigating how well current techniques for anonymizing data are working and whether there’s a need for better methods.
In the latest attempt to allay consumers’ rising fears about the massive amounts of data that online advertisers collect about them, an amalgamation of industry groups is planning to launch a new self-regulation effort meant to let users decide not to be tracked by advertisers.
