Hackers Steal 19, 000 AT&T DSL Customer’s Credit Card Information

August 25th, 2007 Several people are having a bad experience with State Bank Credit Card, myself included. The whole operation smells, run by outside-minimally-paid agents and there are gaping holes in the system which can rob your blind.

May 4th, 2005 I am sure most of us have noticed at grocery stores and large retailers, the cashiers rarely, if ever, verify your signature. In fact some even give back your card before you return your signed receipt! I didn't know how pervasive the problem was till I read John Hargrave's exploits with credit card.

October 21st, 2005 This tip comes from Pete Freitag: Always, always set autocomplete="off" in the input tag. For example: <input type="text" name="cc" autocomplete="off" /&rt; Otherwise, if people have the form completion feature turned on their credit card number will be stored in plain text somewhere on the computer (in the registry, or elsewhere).

August 31st, 2007 Tata Indicom now allows you to pay your bills online using your credit card or using your net banking account. As a Tata Indicom Broadband customer this is a big convenience for me.

September 3rd, 2006 A Kolkata girl, Sulagna Ray, was arrested on Friday morning from her Behala home for using stolen credit card details of US residents, whom she served during her work at a call center selling DishTV, to buy goods worth $4, 500. The call centre, where Sulagna worked, does the back-end operations of another e-commerce site in the US.

August 2nd, 2006 Eight different ways Google Checkout prevents and protects you from fraudulent credit card transactions, reimburses you for eligible chargebacks and even fights on your behalf: Update: See the comments at the end for some negative experiences with Google checkout. Consider them before commiting to Google checkout.

May 29th, 2006 Symantec's antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and US government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers from eEye Digital Security said. Symantec is investigating the issue.

February 17th, 2005 ChoicePoint is working with the California authorities on this, assuming that the impact is on Californian residents only. However security experts diasgree.

October 20th, 2007 When Google Checkout came out I was very excited to have a viable alternative to PayPal from a reputed company despite its limitation to US only market. Since its launch I have heard several complaints from my readers, with zero positive experiences.

September 19th, 2007 Automattic hosts WordPress.com using dedicated servers from LayeredTech. According to Todd Abrams, President & COO of Layered Technologies: "The Layered Technologies support database was a target of malicious activity on the evening of 9/17/2007 that may have involved the illegal downloading of information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and server login details for 5 to 6,000 of our clients." "Due to the significant amount of uncertainty in determining which accounts may have been impacted, Layered Technologies felt that it was in your best interest to take the precautionary steps of reaching out to you and all clients regarding this issue.

July 21st, 2007 Normally we need fake id's when we are developing or testing any application with user authentication & entitlement. Fake ids are required to populate the database for testing.

July 24th, 2006 Many online blogging software and other products require some type of cron and / or asynchronous execution functionality. Spammers and web robots are an essential part of any website today.

April 21st, 2009 Hackers have breached jet fighter program WASHINGTON — A defense official says cyber hackers nearly two years ago breached a high-tech jet fighter program developed for the Pentagon by Lockheed Martin Corp. but classified information was not compromised.

June 26th, 2007 AT&T Inc. and Apple Inc. on Tuesday revealed prices for iPhone service, which would start at $59.99 a month and require customers to buy an Internet plan.

December 3rd, 2008 Jason Calcanis has a simple solution for America's woes. To summarize his eminently readable article in his own words: What made America great was our ability to innovate and create world-class products, ideas and services that people around the globe fell in love with and wanted for themselves.