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when transanction is made by credit card(on internate),can other party use the details of my credit card for removing cash from my account as well as any other illegal transanction?can hackers read the details of my credit card when i am making on line payment?what is the safest and secure way to use credit card on line?
I would suggest looking into getting a reloadable prepaid credit card for doing any transactions online spending limits are set by the amount of money you load onto the card. When you make a purchase with a prepaid credit card the purchase amount is deducted from the card balance.
If some attacker gets a hold of your card and you only loaded it with $200 bucks he's not going to be able to buy a $1000 HD TV at amazon at your expense.
A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and ...
There is usually a web site listed on the back of your credit card. The site should be secure and encrypted. People use them every day. There are very few things in this world that are hacker-proof.
Hacker Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy In Credit-Card Data Theft ...
By Kathy Shwiff, Dow Jones Newswires
Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to hack into computer networks of major U.S. retail and financial organizations and to steal data related to tens of millions of credit and debit cards.
Prosecutors have called it the largest credit and debit card data breach ever charged in the U.S.
According to the plea agreement, Gonzalez, 28, of Miami will be sentenced to between 17 and 25 years in prison and his sentences in two separate cases will run concurrently.
On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to two counts of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to the payment card networks operated by, among others, Heartland Payment Systems Inc. (HPY), a New Jersey-based card processor; 7-Eleven, a Texas-based nationwide convenience store chain; and Hannaford Brothers Co., a Maine-based supermarket chain.
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