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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
...retailer Update pending as details become available Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unknown Victims 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...
 
Tags: breach, breach description, security breach, retail data breach, major retailer, retailer, data, major breach, data breach
 
 
 
 
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Luxury car retailer eliminates spam burn out

2008-03-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b0ea28 in Network World on Security
 
...retailer Brisbane BMW, made the decision to upgrade its e-mail management system Download MICROSOFT SEARCH SERVER EXPRESS 2008 FREE Advertisement Search file shares, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, Lotus Notes repositories, and more
 
Tags: exchange public folders, lotus notes repositories, e-mail management system, virus attacks, spam, download microsoft, file shares, fair share, sharepoint sites
 
 
 
 
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New retailer data breach may affect hundreds of thousands

2008-03-17 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
A major security breach at an unnamed major retailer may have exposed hundreds of thousands of consumers in the northeastern U.S. to fraud
 
Tags: major security breach, thousands, hundreds, major retailer, fraud, northeastern, consumers
 
 
 
 
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Internet retailer sues Yahoo for $1 million

2008-04-16 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Online retailer Bigreds.com is suing Yahoo for $1 million, claiming it was overcharged because it was the victim of click fraud
 
Tags: online retailer bigreds, click fraud, million, yahoo, victim
 
 
 
 
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Classic Closeouts retailer booted from TRUSTe program

2008-10-06 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b5a3c0 in Network World on Security
 
Online retailer Classic Closeouts has been expelled from the TRUSTe consumer-protection program due to inappropriate handling of unauthorized credit-card charges
 
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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
 
...retailers mismanaging their data. They still spend money in those stores. It does not impact retailer revenue or stock price. So, let us not worry about it too much Wrong. I believe it is just a matter of time before consumers understand the issue and become intolerant of sloppy data protection. And maybe that time has come. The recent story...
 
Tags: data, customer data, cards, sloppy data protection, consumers, data protection, consumers plan, credit cards, credit
 
 
 
 
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Fraud Due to a Credit Card Breach

2008-03-21 06:39:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...retailers that they will not divulge who the source is when a data breach occurs," Spitzer said. "We've been engaged in a dialogue for a couple years now about changing this rule.... Without knowing who the retailer is that caused the breach, it's hard for banks to conduct a good investigation on behalf of their consumers. And it's a problem...
 
Tags: breach, data breach occurs, fraud, risk, million unique account, actual risk, card authorization process, retailer, rule
 
 
 
 
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PC Universe is shrinking thanks to McAfee Secure's cluelessness

2008-06-27 10:11:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...Retailer piece. By the way, I realize that Internet Retailer and basic web application security practices are completely at odds, but this one deserves direct abuse PC Universe first tested Hacker Safe on its own site in an A/B split test in which half the visitors saw the Hacker Safe seal and half did not. During that test, 7.3% more orders...
 
Tags: internet retailer piece, internet retailer, secure, mcafee secure, universe, internet retailer top, hacker safe seal, hacker safe, hacker safe shoppers
 
 
 
 
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When Will the Media Industry Embrace the BORA Principle?

2007-03-22 10:06:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...retailers) wouldnt embrace ecommerce until they created a process by which credit card numbers couldnt be stolen online Their fear clouded their ability to approach the problem logically. If a credit card can easily be cloned by your waiter at a restaurant, then why protect the same card during an online transaction? Or better yet, why...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, credit card industry, credit card fraud, industry, media industry, cut fraud, fraud, credit cards
 
 
 
 
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Customers of 14 Advance Auto Parts stores are victims of intrusion

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2008-03-31 21:45:18 by Evan Francen in