Computer security a concern for everyone.(TECH)

The Kiplinger California Letter;  February 22, 2006 ;     319 words ...Computer security isn't just for the tech staff...Sarbanes-Oxley and health care laws. Credit card firms are cracking down...secure computers. Costly computer crime is surging this year...a world crime ring sold credit card data online to the highest...troubles are spurring sales ...

Investigation into Egghead.com Breach Suggests No Credit Card Information...

PR Newswire;  January 8, 2001 ;     656 words ......representatives from the major credit card companies and agents from...Moreover, reports from the credit card companies we work with suggest that fewer than 7,500 credit card accounts that appear in...approximately three million credit card numbers in our ...

BJ's announces clampdown after credit card theft

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  March 31, 2004 ;     295 words ......Club has tightened computer security after finding that its customers' credit card information might have...technology systems with a computer security firm. After the review...potential ways to steal credit card information, the company...

DSW Releases Findings From Fraud Investigation Into Credit Card and Other...

PR Newswire;  April 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......investigation into the theft of credit card and other purchase information...of the nation's leading computer security firms. Our first concern...other information from the credit card users was stolen, as it...and brought in a leading computer security firm, Ubizen ...

'Virtual Card' Offers Online Security Blanket; Some Fraud-Wary Credit Card...

The Washington Post;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......extra charge, consumers sign up at the credit card's Web site, often downloading software...be used for purchases that require a credit card to be produced at the time of pickup...provides the technology to the three credit card issuers. Orbiscom declined to provide...transactions ...

TJX computer security breached.

Times (Munster, IN);  January 30, 2007 ;     570 words ......Holecek Jan. 30--A security breach in the computer systems of stores owned by the TJX Companies...for fraudulent activity on their bank and credit card statements and credit reports. The company operates 36 stores in...important that Hoosiers be alert and check their credit card and ...

KORGO WORM STEALING CREDIT CARD DATA

United Press International;  June 4, 2004 ;     189 words ......International 06-04-2004 Korgo worm stealing credit card data HELSINKI, Finland, Jun 04, 2004...International via COMTEX) -- A Finnish computer security firm is warning Windows users of a virus that is aggressively stealing credit card numbers and passwords. The Korgo virus...The key ...

Latest credit-card data theft highlights small retailers' fears of losses.

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  June 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ......brunt of lapses in credit and computer security, including the breach that...and perhaps millions, of credit-card numbers being stolen from...billion in annual losses from credit-card fraud, including identity...compromised as many as 40 million credit card numbers when ...

Many retailers will have to beef up their computer security.(FINANCIAL...

The Kiplinger Letter;  February 3, 2006 ;     62 words ...Many retailers will have to beef up their computer security. Credit card companies will insist that firms processing cards install firewalls, secure server rooms and use encryption programs plus unique...

Reviewing your computer security.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 28, 2006 ;     147 words ......realise that a keystroke logger has been installed on their computer to record passwords and credit card numbers. The matter of computer security is made even more complex by the fact that security threats often come from inside of one's...

Is it safe to use a credit card for online purchases?

Daily Breeze;  June 17, 2002 ;     519 words ......safe to use my credit card online? Answer...plunking down your credit card number on a faceless...experts say online credit card shopping is as secure as using your credit card anywhere else...s always safe. Credit card numbers are valuable...that thief is ...

Hires on the Hot Seat: Inside Jobs Mean Credit Checks: Eight million...

US Banker;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......now-infamous case of eight million credit card numbers pilfered from DPI, a payment-processi...are inside, says Chad Herrington, computer security specialist at Entercept Security Technologies...lackadaisical attitude toward internal computer security, Gray says. He sees a disturbing ...

COMPUTER SECURITY REQUIRES COMMON SENSE, SAFEGUARDS

Regulatory Intelligence Data;  October 3, 2000 ;     528 words ......computer system and recommend updates. People should use credit card information on the net wisely, Hoopes said. Only use secure...credit cards online might consider getting and using a credit card with a minimal credit line, he said. Also, some credit...Hoopes said people who have questions about ...

CROOKS SPIN TANGLED WEB FOR CREDIT CARD USERS.(Business)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ......everyone who uses a credit card. Maxim is a cyberthief...more than 300,000 credit card files from an online...names, addresses and credit card numbers on the Internet...downloaded more than 25,000 credit card numbers, according...likely, in the general credit ...

Credit card data should be made more secure ; The law should make...

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  June 22, 2005 ;     344 words ......Press Herald (Maine) 06-22-2005 Credit card data should be made more secure...massive breach in the security of credit card data being maintained by a company...with data for at least 200,000 credit card accounts stolen and up to 40...regulators oversee its activities. The ...