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The US is finally switching over from insecure credit card signatures to PINs

Feb

2014

US banks and merchants are shifting to a more secure way of authorizing credit card transactions in which customers will enter a personal identification number (PIN) at checkout instead of signing a receipt. The US is the last major market in the world using the signature system, which is part of the reason why a disproportionate […]

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Beware of new Windows activation Trojan – Malware asks users to pay a ?100 fine to re-activate the computer

Sep

2011

In case of an infection, the pc is locked and inoperable. The malware displays a screen with a fake Microsoft Windows activation request: G Data products identify this particular ransomware as Trojan.Generic.KDV.340157 (Engine A) and Win32:Trojan-gen (Engine B). How one can identify this kind of threat as rip-off:First of all, one should not be […]

Category General Written by Security Blog G Data Software AG 0 Comments

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