Economy Watch Archive for Security Fix - Brian Krebs on computer and Internet security

Investment Firms Report Increased Credit & Debit Card Fraud

Financial institutions in the securities and futures industries last year reported a large increase in the number of suspicious transactions attributed to debit and credit card fraud -- nearly double the number reported in 2007, new statistics released by the...

Heartland Breach Blamed for Failed Membership Renewals

In February, Bill Oesterle began seeing nearly twice the normal number of transactions being declined for customers who had set up auto-billing on their accounts. The co-founder of Angie's List -- a service that aggregates consumer reviews of local contractors...

Report: Cybercrime is Winning the Battle Over Cyberlaw

Law enforcement agencies worldwide are losing the battle against cyber crime at a time when criminals are increasingly using the global economic downturn to make headway in recruiting more computers and computer users to further illegal online activities, a scathing...

Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline

The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted on Tuesday after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was taken offline. (Note: A link to the full...

VISA to Enforce Payment Card Security in Europe

Update, 1:20 p.m.: A major correction is in order for this story: A spokesman for Visa just contacted me to say that the new deadlines actually apply to all non-U.S. retailers except those in Europe. The spokesman said Visa Europe...

Security Fix Archive: Economy Watch

Investment Firms Report Increased Credit & Debit Card Fraud

Heartland Breach Blamed for Failed Membership Renewals

Report: Cybercrime is Winning the Battle Over Cyberlaw

Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline

VISA to Enforce Payment Card Security in Europe