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Glitches with the PayPal service has left merchants unable to accept some international payments for almost two weeks. The bug has also prevented merchants from charging some customers for handling costs.
28 May 2008
US authorities have charged 38 members of an international criminal gang that allegedly used spam e-mails to steal bank account details and passwords from thousands of customers.
23 May 2008
UK ID fraud start-up Garlik has secured $5 million in additional funding which it will use to support its launch into the North American market.
16 May 2008
European online payments outfit Moneybookers has launched a Facebook application that enables account holders to send and receive money via their profile on the social networking site.
Citi has launched a service that enables its customers in Singapore to make purchases on US-based online shopping Web sites.
13 May 2008
Australian banks are looking to the country's competition watch dog to derail plans by eBay to force customers to use its PayPal service to make payments on the online auction site.
29 April 2008
PayPal has partnered US wireless operator Sprint to offer its person-to-person services via the telco's new downloadable mobile wallet.
25 April 2008
PayPal, the online payments business of electronic auction house eBay, says it will block people from accessing its site with older browser technology that leaves users exposed to security risks.
18 April 2008
A Visa card that combines pre-pay functionality with government-approved proof-of-age verification has been launched in the UK.
16 April 2008
US e-payments association Nacha has launched an electronic bill delivery service utilising the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network.
15 April 2008
A new study from Forrester Research predicts that despite the current economic gloom, online retail spending by US consumers will rise by 17% this year to $204 billion.
10 April 2008
Around 21% of US adults have had their bank account details stolen by online thieves, according to research published by European smart card vendor Gemalto.
09 April 2008
HSBC's online Secure ePayments application crashed again earlier this week leaving retailers unable to process card transactions for the second time in a fortnight.
Cyber criminals are selling stolen bank account and credit card details for knock down prices at online supermarkets as part of a thriving and maturing underground economy, according to Internet security outfit Symantec.
08 April 2008
US e-retailer Amazon has launched TextBuyIt, a new service that enables customers to use text messaging to find products and make purchases using their mobile phones.
02 April 2008
New figures released by UK payments association Apacs shows that industry losses from plastic card fraud jumped by 25% to £535.2 million last year, driven by a hefty 77% rise in fraud committed on UK cards abroad.
12 March 2008
Internet users in the UK could lose as much as £10,077 per year as a result of online identity fraud, according to a YouGov survey for digital security firm VeriSign.
07 March 2008
Fresh concerns have been raised over the security of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology used for contactless payments after a hacking demonstration by security expert Adam Laurie at the Black Hat 2008 conference.
26 February 2008
PayPal continues to be the most popular online payment service in Britain, with over 20 million user accounts now registered in the country, which represents more than a third of the UK's adult population.
21 February 2008
The UK's House of Lords is to conduct a follow-up inquiry into personal Internet security after the Government ignored recommendations on fighting cyber crime given in its original August 2007 report.
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