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Use DipJar to leave a small tip with your debit or credit card

Use DipJar to leave a small tip with your debit or credit card
  • Posted August 31, 2012, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • A new service called DipJar allows customers to tip baristas at coffee shops using their credit or debit cards. The hardware is currently being tested in a select number of New York City coffee shops and if successful, could expand…

Square to become payment processor for Starbucks

Square to become payment processor for Starbucks
  • Posted August 8, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Starbucks, a company known for its forward-thinking nature and $1.95 cups of coffee, has made a deal with credit card processing outfit Square. Square will be providing the popular caffeine-based franchise with its payment processing services while Starbucks invests a…

Verizon shows increases in malware, hacktivism, security breaches

Verizon shows increases in malware, hacktivism, security breaches
  • Posted March 23, 2012, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
  • Making note of the social unrest which unfolded in 2011, Verizon's 2012 data breach investigation report (very large pdf) highlights a tumultuous year for computer and network security. Although a couple of numbers were down from previous years, attacks related…

Pro-Israeli hackers release 4500 Saudi credit cards, DDoS bank websites

Pro-Israeli hackers release 4500 Saudi credit cards, DDoS bank websites
  • Posted January 19, 2012, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
  • The ongoing saga between pro and anti-Israeli hackers continues to escalate as pro-Israel attackers use distributed denial of service attacks to take down the websites of three notable Saudi banks. In addition, hackers have released over 4,500 Saudi credits card…

Hackers continue Israel attack, deface website, more credit cards leaked

Hackers continue Israel attack, deface website, more credit cards leaked
  • Posted January 13, 2012, 1:41 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
  • On Friday, a group of purportedly Gazan hackers defaced Israel's Fire and Rescue Services website. They added a "death to Israel" message to the website and modified a picture of Danny Ayalon, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, superimposing foot prints over his…

Israel likens hacker to terrorist for exposing 400,000 credit cards

Israel likens hacker to terrorist for exposing 400,000 credit cards
  • Posted January 9, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
  • Last week, a hacker known as "0xOmar" (also being mistakenly reported as OxOmar by most news media) took credit for publishing an illicit bounty of 400,000 credit card numbers, a claim yet to be fully corroborated by news agencies. On…

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