Yesterday on www.lightbluetouchpaper.org. Online transactions with credit cards or debit cards are increasingly verified using the 3D Secure system, which is branded as “Verified by VISA” and “MasterCard SecureCode”. This is now the most widely-used single sign-on scheme ever, with over 200 million cardholders registered. It’s getting hard to shop online without being forced to [...]

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A former London pizza delivery man faces a 10-year prison sentence after admitting he helped found the notorious DarkMarket forum for computer crime, several news sites reported. Renukanth Subramaniam, a 33-year-old Sri Lanka-born man from North London, pleaded guilty at Blackfriars Crown Court in London to conspiracy to defraud and furnishing false information. Authorities say [...]

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In raids throughout Germany and Austria, police closed down a web gang which stole private credit-card data and used viruses to create a network of 100,000 robot computers, Germany’s Federal Crime Office said Wednesday. In Germany, three persons were detained during the Tuesday raids on 46 homes. One was held in Austria. Many computers were [...]

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The US Attorneys Office has indicted a group of East Europeans who used cloned debit cards to withdraw $9 million from bank accounts around the world within just a few hours in November of 2008. The data required to create the cards was obtained from an earlier attack on financial services provider RBS WorldPay, which [...]

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