Tag Archives: credit card

868,000 Payment Cards, 330 Stores

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Carmelo

Goodwill’s investigation revealed that malware had been installed on a third-party vendor system used by 10% of its franchised stores to process credit cards. Twenty of Goodwill’s 158 regional headquarters in the United States were impacted by the breach, because … Continue reading →

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Should We Buy Credit Monitoring Services?

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Carmelo

With the ton of breaches that have been happening, we use one of the credit monitoring services, after this year though and all the breaches going on, one of the first services that is offered to potential victims, is credit … Continue reading →

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RFID Skimming

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Carmelo

It’s from a few years back. Is this still a vulnerability? Do banks still issue RFID cards? You can still find RFID credit card readers, so I wonder.

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Mid-year 2014 Data Breaches Exposed

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Carmelo

2014 is going to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records, according to Risk Based Security. Mid-year 2014 at a Glance … • There were 1331 incidents reported during the first six months of 2014 exposing … Continue reading →

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Consumers Footing the Bill on Data Breaches

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Carmelo

Found on this page I really love infographics and how they put things into perspective.

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