As I age, I"m a couple of weeks short of 86 now, I get inundated with scam emails.
Now I'm not just getting ones that say they are from Amazon, my bank, UPS, other retailers, and payment services they are claiming to be from the Social Security!
The first thing I do is look at the address...
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I came to know and interested on this topic after a social engineering manipulation on my wife's banking account. Like everybody we also get many prank calls and mails. One day somebody called her and asked for the pin number...
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Original release date: January 02, 2014 | Last revised: February 05, 2014
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Overview
Point of Sale Systems
When consumers purchase goods or services from a retailer, the transaction is processed through what are commonly referred to as Point of Sale...
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Hi
Here's another one to watch out for.
I just received an email telling me that another computer has tried to log into my Bank of America account.
It has a big button that says "Log into the customer account center and verify your identity." or something to that effect.
The thing is, I don't...
Recently there has been some debate on the legality on the buying and selling of Microsoft activation key's. Luckily for us Microsoft are quite clear about this:
Ref:
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Users may have bought keys that work but basically they are not legal.
Any threads or posts relating to the...
Original release date: January 02, 2014
Systems Affected
Point of Sale Systems
Overview
Point of Sale Systems
When consumers purchase goods or services from a retailer, the transaction is processed through what are commonly referred to as Point of Sale (POS) systems. POS systems consist of...
Web applications increasingly integrate third-party services. The integration introduces new security challenges due to the complexity for an application to coordinate its internal states with those of the component services and the web client across the Internet. In this paper, we study the...
Amazon retailers are being targeted by fraudsters who have created a custom-built a program that generates fakes receipts for nonexistent orders, according to researchers from GFI Software.
he program is designed to create a customized HTML file that closely resembles an actual Amazon.com...