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    Wednesday Grok: Kaching — ring in the laughter, get in on 'The Joke' 26 October, 2011 10:20:00

    Someone in marketing at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) obviously thought 'Kaching' — you know, the sound of a cash register ringing up a sale — was a clever name for a mobile payment system.
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    Beyond Google Wallet: A look at the competition 21 September, 2011 00:02:00

    Google Wallet is finally here, allowing Sprint Nexus S users to pay with their smartphones at select retailers in New York and San Francisco.
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    iZettle launches card payment app for iPhone 18 August, 2011 20:23:03

    Startup iZettle has made its payment application available for Swedish iPhone users, and now plans to distribute 2,000 card chip readers, the company said on Thursday.
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    Hacker arrests escalate 02 August, 2011 00:25:00

    As hacking groups like Anonymous and LulzSec have earned a higher profile in the past few months, they've also earned themselves (or perhaps their patsies) an increasing number of trips to jail.
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    Visa, MasterCard and AmEx join Google Wallet competitor 20 July, 2011 06:57:22

    Isis, the mobile-payments joint venture that includes three U.S. national mobile operators, said Tuesday that Visa, MasterCard and American Express have signed on to support the project.
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    MasterCard blames ISP outage for site's downtime 30 June, 2011 01:41:43

    MasterCard said on Wednesday that its main website was offline for a short period of time due to a weather-related issue at a third-party ISP and not a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack as claimed by WikiLeaks.
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    Mastercard.com slammed again as punishment over WikiLeaks 29 June, 2011 00:10:42

    MasterCard's main website was unavailable for some time on Tuesday as it appeared hackers were again targeting the company for its refusal to process donations for the whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks.
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    Google Wallet may be missing key partners 27 May, 2011 05:50:00

    While Google had some notable partners at the launch of its mobile payment platform, the companies that weren't there could end up determining the success of the project.
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    Google unveils mobile wallet service 27 May, 2011 03:44:00

    Google on Thursday unveiled a mobile wallet platform and field tests in New York and San Francisco that will let people with special phones pay for goods in retail shops by tapping the phones against a payment terminal.
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    Woolworths commits to Visa's contactless payments 20 May, 2011 15:58:00

    Visa has signed on supermarket giant Woolworths Limited (ASX:WOW) to roll out its contactless payment technology payWave across all of the company’s stores.
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    Credit card vulnerability still alive and well - AusCERT 2011 18 May, 2011 13:39:00

    Global banks are yet to solve a vulnerability in the Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV) integrated circuit standard first rolled out in 2003, allowing hackers to place Trojan devices on point of sale hardware to harvest user and credit card information.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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