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Card Payments Finally Beat Cash Transactions In UK
Card Transactions Finally Top Cash Payments It’s no surprise that in recent years we all look to pay and buy things more with our cards rather than carry cash. In truth, I can not honestly remember the last cash purchase I made. With the implementation of the contactless debit and…
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CS:GO Weapon Skin Sells For $61,052.63
CS:GO We all want to look fabulous gaming. Be it a unique skin, rare weapon, whatever. Gaming ability is not required if you look good playing badly. The question is, how much would you spend for that? While I do not engage in it myself, I am fully aware that…
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Mastercard to Introduce Biometric Credit Cards
MasterCard have revealed a new credit card with an inbuilt biometric fingerprint reader as an additional security means to tackle credit card fraud. The technology works similar to that used on Smartphones where to issue payment, you must have your finger over the sensor to read your print and confirm payment.…
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Ecuador is the Latest in Series of Hacks Against Banks
When it comes to hacking, people do it for all kinds of reasons. Some do it for fun while others target people and places for money. If you are after money, there is only really one place to target, banks. With the bank of Bangladesh having lost millions, with even more…
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Amazon Payments Global Partner Program to Take on Paypal
Amazon is a popular platform for many things, with their websites offering everything from the kindle to mass ordering your pets favourite type of food. With recent steps in the video game market, courtesy of Lumberyard and even sharing educational materials for schools, the company look like it will stop anytime soon…
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Hackers Can Now Use Square Reader to Act as a Credit Card Skimmer
The Square Reader device has been a popular and cheap alternative to point of sale devices. However, as you know where everything is heading nowadays, what can be used to make transactions can also be used to hack your accounts too. A few grad students seem to have managed to…
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PayPal Fined $25 Million For Credit Program
Who remembers the “bill me later” option for Paypal? Not many I’m willing to bet, it didn’t last too long, and now we know why. It’s going to cost PayPal $25 million in fines after it was found to have signed people up to the scheme under false advertisements and…
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Dyre Wolf Attack Reels in over $1 Million in Wire Transfers
IBM’s Security division has been researching a malware attack they have named ‘The Dyre Wolf’ which is said to have been responsible for stealing over $1 million. It is said that the hacking campaign uses targeted spear phishing emails, malware and a phone conversation on organisations that use wire transfers.…
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Square Bringing Apple Pay to Small Businesses
We’ve recently reported on Apple Pay coming to your mobile phone through their technology advancements, now news has come to light that a credit card processing service for small firms called Square is looking to bring it to the wider audience. The original list of participating Apple Pay stores was…
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UK’s National Crime Agency Gives Two-Weeks Notice Regarding GoZeuS and CryptoLocker
The UK National Crime Agency warns the public to take advantage of a two-week notice in order to protect themselves from two major malware roaming the internet, the GoZeuS and CryptoLocker, which are responsible for transferring cash from online accounts and holding personal data for ransom. The NCA stated that…
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Dogevault Goes Offline – Millions of Dogecoins Appear Stolen
As far as cryptocurrencies go, Dogecoin has by far got to be the most popular one of recent times and it’s not surprising really considering it went viral after it was created in the spirit of the popular internet Doge meme. News has come to light however that some people…
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Study Shows 20% Of All Transactions Were Generated By Mobile Purchases
It appears that payments made with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets rose 55 percent over last year, reaching a total of 19.5 percent of all transactions processed worldwide in December by Amsterdam’s Adyen. The most used devices that generated the reported numbers were, of course, Apple iPads and…
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$126,000 Worth Of Bitcoin Sales Made By Overstock.com During The First Day
Bitcoin Sales Overstock.com, the US-based online retail store, said last year that they will be accepting Bitcoin payments in 2014. And just like that, yesterday was Overstock’s first day of accepting Bitcoin transactions, which went incredibly well, as reports say. In the first 30 minutes, Overstock made over $5,000 in…
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Winamp And Shoutcast To Be Bought By Radionomy
Winamp and Shoutcast, the legacy digital music services that owner AOL originally planned to shut down but then halted pending a sale, are reportedly being bought by another company than what we heard in the past. They are not being bought by Microsoft, but are instead being acquired by Radionomy,…
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Bitcoin Offers Accepted By A Vegas Developer Selling His $7.85 Million Mansion
A developer and casino owner based in Los Vegas is reportedly attempting to sell his 25,000 feet mansion at a $7.85 million and is willing to accept Bitcoin currency as well. The idea apparently comes from his two sons who currently are digital “miners” and deal with the aforementioned currency.…
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