Monthly Archives: May 2008

Even Some Banks are Careless

According to ComputerWorld, Bank of New York Mellon Corp. transported an unencrypted computer tapes with 4.5 million client records and the tapes are lost. Continue reading

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Another Less-Than-Useless Service

Marketing a service under the name of “Verify-Me-Now,” the company known as Ifbyphone is offering to “SLASH credit card fraud” with a simple telephone call. There’s a problem. They have no idea who their automated system is calling! Continue reading

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SoftCard Vendor Exposing Card Numbers

When a company that claims to be selling credit card security products does it with an insecure web form, I just have to wonder what they are really doing. SoftCard.biz just has me wondering. Continue reading

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