Neowin News Feed for: Credit

Sony's credit rating downgraded to speculative

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:55:12 +0000

Sony has been feeling the pinch for the past four years, but things just slightly worse for the Japanese tech giant. Fitch has dropped their credit rating from a BB- to a BBB-. Read more...

Skype gives free month of landline calls

Paul Ferson — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:34:08 +0000

In an unusual move, internet communication giant Skype has given away a free month's use to many users, opening up all the service's abilities for a short time. Expect prank calls aplenty in future. Read more...

Sony-owned service hacked, and Sony's servers used for phishing

Denis Wong — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:52:09 +0100

A Sony service is the latest victim of another attack, although this one involves a Sony subsidiary that is a Japanese Internet service provider. Officials at So-net Entertainment Corporation reported a breach by an online... Read more...

PlayStation Network users may have credit card details stolen due to breach

Tom Dwyer — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:05:31 +0100

For a week now, Neowin has been actively reporting on Sony’s PlayStation Network as many gamers find that they’re unable to connect. As reported by Sony themselves, the reason for the downtime was because of... Read more...

Do we really want NFC payments?

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 17:35:05 +0100

I guess it all started with currency. It used to be that stuff had value, and if you wanted something that wasn’t yours, you’d have to give up some of you own stuff that had value... Read more...

Iranian hacker claims credit for Comodo attacks

Piers Hausjell — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:47:26 +0100

A post on the popular website Pastebin sheds new light on the recent Comodo SSL certificate attacks. A 21 year old Iranian hacker who goes by the name of ComodoHacker, claims full responsibility for the... Read more...

Skype offers users $1 for lost service, explains cause of outage

Christopher White — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:03:37 +0000

Skype experienced a significant outage last week when many of their supernodes failed. Today the company has provided a post-mortem of the issue on their blog. In a nutshell, Skype introduced hundreds of "mega-supernodes" to... Read more...

iTunes Store down due to credit problem?

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:50:05 +0000

It looks like iTunes Store is currently down due to a credit processing problem. The issue has been reported by many Twitterers in the past 10 hours. A pop-up gives an error message whenever users... Read more...

100 million credit cards compromised

Sean Bradford — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:31:18 +0000

Yesterday during the biggest day in America's history, Heartland Payment System finally revealed that it's systems were compromised by hackers in late May of 2008. Speculation around the blogosphere is that the company waited until... Read more...

Microsoft: Google gets undue credit for ad conversions

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:55:43 +0100

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Google undeservedly has gotten all the credit for many clicks on the online ads it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft wants to put a stop to that. So said Brian McAndrews, senior vice... Read more...

Fraudsters Use Charities Before Selling Stolen Credit Cards

Slimy — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:44:08 +0100

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Internet security company Symantec claims that Internet fraudsters are donating money to charities as a way to check the validity of stolen credit cards prior to resale. Unfortunately, Symantec doesn't have any figures to indicate... Read more...

Secret Service helps bust ID, credit card theft rings

Slimy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:50:19 +0100

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Thanks to information provided by the Secret Service, on June 12 French National Police arrested four on online fraud charges in relation to an international ID theft ring. The arrests were part of an undercover... Read more...

Valve's Steam service hacked, credit card info obtained

Steven Parker — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:44:45 +0100

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Looks like its time to cancel another card...Valve is still not responding to this as of yet, how wonderful. Valve's Steam content distribution system has apparently been hacked. The culprit allegedly got deep enough into... Read more...

Hackers Steal Credit Card Details of 19,000 AT&T Customers

grnemo — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:09:16 +0100

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Hackers have obtained credit card details of 19,000 online shoppers from telecoms company AT&T. The US company said it had notified shoppers at its online store of the security breach, which affected people buying high-speed... Read more...

Wireless Computer Shrunk Smaller Than a Credit Card

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:14:02 +0100

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Israeli company Compulab recently announced a computer that manages to cram a complete PDA into a device two-thirds the size of a credit card. The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as... Read more...

Activision requires credit cards now

Todd Tanner — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:05:13 +0100

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According to Gamecloud the new "Age Gate" has just gone a step further. Activision is now requiring users to not only verify age, but they must provide a valid credit card to view "M" rated... Read more...

Sony credit rating cut by Standard & Poor's

malebolgia — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:07:53 +0000

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Increased global competition in its core electronics business prompts the first downgrade in over a decade. Today, the globe's preeminent provider of credit rating and risk analysis, Standard & Poor's, downgraded Sony's... Read more...

Credit Cards, Google, and The Internet

Mr magoo — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 17:35:15 +0100

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Credit Card information theft has always been a worry to their users, a worry multiplied by the internet and online shopping. Users have often been haunted by 'scare stories' of data being intercepting and their... Read more...

Google queries provide stolen credit cards

malebolgia — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 06:27:20 +0100

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Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the Web, CNET News.com learned on Tuesday. The lists of financial... Read more...

Infinium agrees $50 million credit line

malebolgia — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:31:37 +0100

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Broadband game delivery proponent Infinium Labs has announced that it has secured a $50 million credit facility from an institutional investor, replacing a previously announced financing deal for $44 million. The new deal, which has... Read more...