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Windows-based cashpoints at risk of hijack

News Security experts have hacked cashpoints to show how easy it is to steal money and bank account details from modern cash machines.Cashpoints today face the Internet-born threat of worms and denial of service attacks, as well as being at risk from...

Tags: machines, cash, face, encrypted

5 March 2008, 9:16

Google invites everyone to Googlemail

News Google on Wednesday morning said its Googlemail service is now open to anyone who wants an account. The application, which will run on any Java-based phone with data services, synchronises Googlemail on the phone with the user's Web-based account.

8 February 2007, 8:54

Google Checkout opens for business

News Google is set to unveil today its much anticipated online payment processing system designed to offer shoppers with a Google account a quick way to pay for things. AdWords customers who use the payment system will have shopping cart icons displayed...

29 June 2006, 10:46

Banks face prosecution over Indian call centre leak

News UK banks have been warned they face prosecution for breaching the Data Protection Act after a call-centre worker in India sold bank account details of 1,000 UK customers to an undercover reporter. The security leak was discovered following an...

24 June 2005, 8:47

New phishing attack uses real ID hooks

News Security researchers are reporting a new brand of phishing attack in the US that attempts to use stolen consumer data to rip off individual account holders at specific banks. According to Cyota, the phishing e-mails arrive at bank customers' in...

17 May 2005, 9:38

Digital sales not saving faltering music industry

News The organisation claims downloads now account for six per cent of all global music sales. The IFPI figures take into account music downloads, tracks bought over mobile networks and real music ringtones.

5 October 2005, 10:08

News.blog: Dell plans for AMD-based laptops

News AMD finally broke into the Dell account earlier this year, signing a deal for four-processor servers. They declined to comment at all about the status of their dealings with Dell, which raised a few eyebrows among the press and analyst corps in...

4 August 2006, 9:52

Windows Live Mail goes Dutch

News Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende may get booted out of office in national elections this month, but he can lay claim to being the first person in the world to get an authorised fresh Windows Live Mail account, Microsoft said on Friday.

13 November 2006, 9:20

Pick up the tab with a text message

News That's what some people in the US can now do if they sign up for an account with a start-up called Feed Tribes. Consumers sign up through the company's Web site, establishing an account that's linked to a cheque or savings account.

30 November 2006, 9:40

Cybercrime threat keeps spiralling

News Industrial espionage by foreign governments, attempted fraud and internal threats all need to be taken into account by IT managers, Schmidt said on Monday. With any computer downtime costing a company money, especially e-commerce sites and...

22 November 2006, 8:39

Yahoo hooks up with digital TV

News Subscribers would need a valid Yahoo account with a yahoo.com email address as well as a valid TiVo user account. In a move that further blurs the lines of television and the Internet, Yahoo and TiVo have partnered to schedule downloads to TiVo...

7 November 2005, 9:53

Google launches Web-based calendar app

News A Gmail account is not necessary to use Google Calendar. In addition, users can create event invitations to be sent to anyone with an email account, send reminders via email or text message, and keep track of RSVPs from within the program.

13 April 2006, 9:45

Your TV is killing the planet

News Alone, they account for 4 per cent of the US's annual residential electricity consumption, the NRDC said. Overall, consumer electronics account for 15 to 20 per cent of household electricity use today, up from 5 per cent in 1980, according to...

23 November 2005, 9:34

News.blog: Flickr deletions upset users

News The author of Badflickr says his account was terminated "without warning and without due process", apparently because of photos depicting one of his small children "wearing only his birthday suit" on a beach holiday.

6 September 2006, 9:53

'Finance-phobic' consumers open to fraud

News And nine out of 10 said they wouldn't be able to tell if £1,000 was taken out of their account. The figures make chilling reading coming out as the government admitted 7.25 million citizens' bank account details are languishing on two CDs mislaid...

Tags: consumers, cent, check, account

23 November 2007, 8:42