ID theft stings, but it's hard to pin on specific data hacks
Equifax 2017. Marriott 2018. Capital One 2019.
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Q&A: What to know about the Capital One data breach
One of the country's biggest credit card issuers, Capital One Financial, is the latest big business to be hit by a data breach, disclosing that roughly 100 million people had some personal information stolen by a hacker.
Jul 30, 2019
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One hack, 106 million people, Capital One ensnared by breach
A security breach at Capital One Financial, one of the nation's largest issuers of credit cards, compromised the personal information of about 106 million people, and in some cases the hacker obtained Social Security and ...
Jul 30, 2019
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What to do if your identity was stolen in mass identity breach
News recently that a malware attack at Detroit-based Wolverine Solutions Group, which handles mailing and other services for hundreds of health care companies, potentially exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands ...
Mar 14, 2019
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Mathematical verification tests if software runs as advertised
When it comes to security, what you don't know can hurt you.
Sep 28, 2018
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Reducing false positives in credit card fraud detection
Have you ever used your credit card at a new store or location only to have it declined? Has a sale ever been blocked because you charged a higher amount than usual?
Sep 20, 2018
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Is your smartphone spying on you?
Some popular apps on your phone may be secretly taking screenshots of your activity and sending them to third parties, according to a new study by a team of Northeastern researchers.
Jul 6, 2018
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Researchers investigate potential threat to speech privacy via smartphone motion sensors
Could smartphone motion sensors be used by cybercriminals to record speech? It is a question that many academic and industry researchers are working to answer in order to ward off this kind of malicious use before it happens.
Jun 15, 2018
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Machine learning will change jobs—impact on economy could surpass that of previous AI applications
Machine learning computer systems, which get better with experience, are poised to transform the economy much as steam engines and electricity have in the past. They can outperform people in a number of tasks, though they ...
Dec 21, 2017
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New study on popular messaging apps shows encrypting is easy but authenticating is hard
Researchers at Brigham Young University have learned that most users of popular messaging apps Facebook Messenger, What'sApp and Viber are leaving themselves exposed to fraud or other hacking because they don't know about ...
Aug 10, 2017
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Credit card
A credit card is part of a system of payments named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. It is a card entitling its holder to buy goods and services based on the holder's promise to pay for these goods and services. The issuer of the card grants a line of credit to the consumer (or the user) from which the user can borrow money for payment to a merchant or as a cash advance to the user.
A credit card is different from a charge card, where a charge card requires the balance to be paid in full each month. In contrast, credit cards allow the consumers to 'revolve' their balance, at the cost of having interest charged. Most credit cards are issued by local banks or credit unions, and are the shape and size specified by the ISO/IEC 7810 standard as ID-1.
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