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New survey: Consumers plan to sharply limit use of cards (AKA, have we awakened a sleeping giant?)

2007-11-28 15:39:00 by Michael Concordia in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...consumers understand the issue and become intolerant of sloppy data protection. And maybe that time has come. The recent story on 60 Minutes is shining a light on the issue and is an indicator of rising consumer awareness Coincidently, we at BitArmor , in partnership with several local TV news departments, conducted a survey over the Black...
 
Tags: data, customer data, cards, sloppy data protection, consumers, data protection, consumers plan, credit cards, credit
 
 
 
 
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Business Week blows the lid off of credit card companies ripping off consumers

2008-06-06 20:45:40 by HASH0x8c27034 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...consumers. It has resulted in the banks winning arbitration cases against consumers to the tune of a 99.998% clip. That is right, 99.998%. It has turned arbitration, where an impartial judge makes determination into the biggest home field advantage this side of the NBA play offs It seems many of the credit card agreements that govern your use...
 
Tags: credit card companies, business week, week, business, consumers, arbitration company, arbitration, national arbitration forum, credit card company
 
 
 
 
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Business Week blows the lid off of credit card companies ripping off consumers

2008-06-06 21:45:31 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...consumers. It has resulted in the banks winning arbitration cases against consumers to the tune of a 99.998% clip. That is right, 99.998%. It has turned arbitration, where an impartial judge makes determination into the biggest home field advantage this side of the NBA play offs It seems many of the credit card agreements that govern your use...
 
Tags: credit card companies, business week, week, business, consumers, arbitration company, arbitration, national arbitration forum, credit card company
 
 
 
 
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Internet crime now targeting consumers

2008-08-13 21:21:28 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog
 
...consumers clipped from www.internetnews.com Study Gives States Poor Marks on Cyber Crime Online consumers are now at risk, Ari Schwartz, COO and vice president at the CDT, said in a statement about the reports findings. Internet crime costs basically nothing to execute, can be highly lucrative and involves little risk of being caught and...
 
Tags: consumers, internet crime costs, online consumers, reports findings, vice president, highly lucrative, cyber crime, ari schwartz, internet crimes
 
 
 
 
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E-commerce security service scans consumers' PCs

2008-01-23 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
An e-commerce security service checks online consumers PCs for malware before allowing the transaction to proceed online
 
Tags: malware, transaction, online
 
 
 
 
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Scammers using Verizons name to bilk consumers

2008-08-22 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
Verizon today released a statement warning consumers to be on the lookout for shady letters telling them that they have won a special sweepstakes and that a firm named Verizon Financial has authorized a payment to them of $750,000
 
Tags: shady letters, consumers, special sweepstakes, payment, statement, verizon, lookout
 
 
 
 
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Visa and Mastercard warn of breach at "major retailer"

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2008-03-17 15:27:42 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...consumers in Massachusetts and northern New England states Number Affected MBA estimates that hundreds of thousands MBA is the Massachusetts Bankers Association which represents approximately 200 commercial, savings and co-operative banks and savings and loan institutions in Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England Types of Data Credit...
 
Tags: breach, breach description, security breach, retail data breach, major retailer, retailer, data, major breach, data breach
 
 
 
 
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Privacy Policies: Perception vs. Reality

2008-09-04 13:15:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...consumers' understanding of online rules and common business practices. For instance, Californians who shop online believe that privacy policies prohibit third-party information sharing. A majority of Californians believes that privacy policies create the right to require a website to delete personal information upon request, a general right...
 
Tags: california consumers overvalue, consumers, california consumers, privacy policy, consumers interpret, website, privacy policies, website operators, delete personal information
 
 
 
 
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Intrusion at Stedmans.com exposes credit card information

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2008-03-23 00:37:57 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...consumers through the website may have been compromised through an unauthorized intrusion into the server that stores information from individuals who purchased products at our website Reference URL The New Hampshire State Attorney General breach notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online...
 
Tags: credit, information, credit card, credit cards, equifax credit, report credit, stedmans, information security professionals, personal information
 
 
 
 
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When Will the Media Industry Embrace the BORA Principle?