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Jeanette O'Connor

Safe Online Banking Tips - INFOGRAPHIC - 1 views

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    With 59% of us banking online and given the steady stream of news about security breaches exposing millions of account numbers and personal info, here's an infographic on the importance of secure online banking. According to the results of a 2011 JustAskGemalto.com poll, 48% of consumers do not know the steps their bank may or may not have taken to keep them secure while banking online.
Jeanette O'Connor

Send & Receive Money Online | Safe & Secure with AlertPay - 0 views

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    There are alternative to Paypal!- AlertPay is an account-based payment processor allowing just about anyone with an email address to securely send and receive money with their credit card or bank account. Shop or send money online to anyone in over 190 countries safely and easily without sharing your personal information.
Akthar Uddin

Cyber war - 0 views

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    cyber wars that threaten global security
Jack Tomlinson

MasterCard SecureCode® | MasterCard® - 0 views

  • 73% of consumers surveyed by MasterCard state that enhanced security would influence their decision to purchase online. MasterCard SecureCode encourages online shopping.
  • 31% of consumers surveyed by MasterCard are concerned that their payment card number will be intercepted by hackers.
  • MasterCard SecureCode makes accepting cards from other countries easier and less risky – helping electronic retailers move into new markets.
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  • Retailers who are MasterCard SecureCode enabled can be listed on the MasterCard Personal Cards website, mastercard.com/securecode, for free.
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    Some good facts about E-commerce shopping, How mastercard aims to combat these
Billie-Jo Clarke

Why Do Websites Use Cookies? - 0 views

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    SolveYourProblem eLearning Series Internet Security A cookie is a small file that contains only text. It attaches itself to your hard drive for each website you visit during any given browser session. They are essentially messages for web sites that stay on your hard drive until you manually delete them, by yourself or with the help of software cleaning program.
Dan Tweed

Black Friday iTunes malware alert - 0 views

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    Criminals are targeting internet users with a new gift certificate scam, according to security experts. Users receive an email that claims to be from Apple's iTunes store, warns the Eleven security blog. The ZIP file attached contains malware that may allow hackers to gain access to the recipient's computer.
Jeanette O'Connor

Moneybookers.com - Send Money - Receive Money - Online Payments - Money Transfers - 1 views

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    There are alternatives to Paypal-Skrill (Moneybookers) is the cheaper way to send and receive money worldwide. Secure and convenient online payments. More than 22.3 million customers and 117 000 merchants.
Jack Tomlinson

Betfair loses millions of customers' credit card details then covers it up | Mail Online - 0 views

  • More than 3.1 million account names with encrypted security questions, 2.9 million usernames, and nearly 90,000 account usernames with bank account details were stolen.
  • Betfair said it did not inform its registered customers of the attack
  • The betting group said it had contacted the Australian Federal Police and German authorities over the attack
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    Had this for a little while and forgot to share, if your still after a high profile data details case this is one
Jack Tomlinson

Data Security Rules - Mastercard - 1 views

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    PDF on What Merchants must not do with the data they receive from their customers. 
Billie-Jo Clarke

Human Error Causes Most Data Loss, Study Says - 2 views

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    Human error accounts for three-quarters of incidents where sensitive data is lost, new research has revealed. A report from the IT Policy Compliance Group says a fifth of organizations are hit by 22 or more sensitive data losses a year, with customer, financial, corporate, employee and IT security data going missing because it is stolen, leaked or destroyed.
Dan Tweed

Murky trade in exploit hack packs - 0 views

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    Russian computer programmers have created an industry supplying criminals with easy-to-use automated hacking software which can take control of a home PC in seconds. This type of software, called an exploit pack, takes advantage of known flaws in commonly used programs, such as Adobe Reader and Internet Explorer, to hack computers without the need for human intervention.
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    As always, if software is kept up-to-date, then these hacks are unlikely to get past the new security patches.
Dan Tweed

Cyber Attacks worry the Government - 1 views

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    In advance of the Defence Spending Review, the UK Government believes that Cyber Attacks and Terrorism are the biggest threats faced by the country. This is worrying. It certainly shows some of the disadvantages of Internet connectivity.
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