News

• Global Payments says fewer than 1.5M cards affected in data theft

  By John Ribeiro | 02 April, 2012 14:35

  Payments processing services company, Global Payments said late Sunday that information on up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been "exported" as a result of an unauthorized access into its processing system.

• Possible massive data breach of Visa-MasterCard accounts under investigation

  By Ellen Messmer | 31 March, 2012 02:43

  A massive data breach of a payment-card processor's network could involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers, according to security news writer Brian Krebs in his online posting today.

• MasterCard to use Sybase 365 mobile money technology

  By Nermin Bajric | 24 February, 2012 14:11

  Mobile messaging and commerce services provider, Sybase 365, has been selected as a preferred mobile money technology provider in the MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership Program.

• MasterCard: Contactless payments now the norm, next stop is mobile NFC wallets

  By Spandas Lui | 23 February, 2012 10:40

  Contactless payment methods are already becoming the norm, paving way for a future where mobile phones will supplant wallets, according to MasterCard head of market development, Matthew Barr.

• Anonymous' Robin Hood credit card fraud campaign could hurt more than just banks

  By Lucian Constantin | 01 December, 2011 05:11

  Hacktivist groups Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN have joined together in a new campaign that involves compromising credit card details and using them to donate money to charities, homeless people and anti-government protesters around the world.

• MasterCard gives sneak peek into mobile payments future

  By Marc Ferranti | 16 September, 2011 10:41

  MasterCard on Thursday gave a sneak peek into the near future of mobile payment systems and said that the Google Wallet application is within weeks of being rolled out commercially.

• MasterCard, Visa face EU complaint over WikiLeaks donations

  By Jeremy Kirk | 05 July, 2011 00:47

  WikiLeaks' card payment processor is preparing legal action against Visa Europe, MasterCard Europe and other payment intermediaries after its contract to process payments was abruptly terminated following WikiLeaks' release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables last November.

• Satyam sets up testing center for MasterCard

  By John Ribeiro | 30 May, 2011 21:38

  Satyam Computer Services is setting up a business applications testing center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for payments company MasterCard, reflecting a growing interest among customers to sign up new business with the Indian outsourcer as it recovers from a financial scandal.

• Year of the breach

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 05 May, 2011 16:15

  The security industry has been rocked by a near-constant stream of breaches and threats in 2011, and it’s having a real impact on security resellers’ business and customer interaction, but in a very positive way.

• News feature: Risky business

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 07 April, 2011 16:51

  Risk management should be high on the list of priorities right now. If organisations and boards didn’t realise its importance previously, the natural disasters of Queensland, Victoria, Perth, Christchurch, Japan, and, most recently, Myanmar (it’s been a bad start to the year) should have reinforced it.

• Academic: IT risk management still not up to scratch

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 23 February, 2011 10:02

  Despite numerous high profile IT glitches and failures within organisations, IT risk is still not considered high enough priority, according to a UNSW academic.

• Bank of America cuts services for WikiLeaks

  By Marc Ferranti | 19 December, 2010 05:49

  Bank of America has joined the growing list of financial and technology companies that have cut off services to WikiLeaks, a move that comes amid speculation that the whistleblower site is preparing to release information about the bank.

• MasterCard lets iPhone owners send or receive money with app

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 07 June, 2010 05:31

  Using MasterCard's MoneySend application, iPhone and iPad users will be able to send or receive money using their phone or tablet, the card company said on Thursday.

• MasterCard to cater to developers with APIs, portal

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 May, 2010 05:48

  MasterCard is launching a program for external developers interested in tapping into some of the credit card giant's internal payment and data services to create applications.

• MasterCard to cater to developers with APIs, portal

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 May, 2010 07:37

  MasterCard is launching a program for external developers interested in tapping into some of the credit card giant's internal payment and data services to create applications.