July 8, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Your company’s road warriors now have a simple, cheap solution to taking credit card payments in the field using just their mobile phone or PDA. The catch: The service is being offered by AT&T.
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Tags: Apriva, AprivaPay, AprivaPay Professional, AT&T, credit card, mobile phone, payment
December 15, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
In a previous post, we wrote about the privacy expectations that aren’t exactly being met by social networking sites like Facebook. Now, there’s speculation that social networking sites may be providing info on users to their financial institutions.
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Tags: bank, blog, credit card, Facebook, information, Roger Thompson, security researcher
March 31, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Like the now-disgraced banking industry, thought by Alan Greenspan to be capable of self-regulation because it was in their institutions’ best interests, another sector may soon be facing its own regulatory Waterloo.
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Tags: breach, congress, credit card, data, hearings
March 11, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
There’s nobody out there more ready for economic stimulus than cyber criminals and con artists.
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Tags: checking account, credit card, cybercriminals, economic stimulus, scam, theft
January 21, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Everybody likes being No. 1, unless the top spot’s got more notoriety than fame.
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Tags: breach, credit card, data theft, debit card, Heartland, MasterCard, processing, visa
