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-. More...

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. More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

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... More...

Just a short piece of news that I came across and thought that it might interest the Neowinians who use PayPal's services regularly. Appearantly, PayPal is hoping to improve customers' protection standards by introducing a... More...

Forget about using a pen to sign a credit card slip, or even tapping in a secret number. In the future, you could authorise payments by simply moving your finger over your flexible friend. ... More...

So the UK govn. will soon be able to have a peek at UK'ers finances, eh? Strike another nail in the coffin of privacy if you will please. The government is... More...

Anti-spam activists have upped the ante in their fight against junk email by publishing the details - including credit card information - of people who've ordered spamming services online. Activists published details from order forms... More...

EBay launched a new promotion this week that lets consumers use airline miles and hotel loyalty points as credit toward items purchased on the online auction service. Through the eBay Anything Points... More...

IF YOU WONDER where your post count has gone or why half of our hacks on the boards or site are still not working or even why Neowin has been warped back to Feb 13th... More...

Thanks youm0nt...Take a look at one of those credit cards in your wallet. That's the exact size and thickness of an upcoming, revolutionary removable storage device called StorCard. Created by a company with the same... More...

Bugbear is an Internet worm with a Trojan horse that attempts to steal your passwords and credit card information. Bugbear (w32.bugbear@mm), also known as Tanatos, is about 50KB long and is compressed with the UPX... More...

Thanks go to Slashdot for point me in the direction of this article over on MSNBC regarding Best Buy and their wireless cash registers and the insecurity therein. Best Buy, the nation's No.... More...

Ripped from The Register: Now we know why CCBill was so terrified of taking verbal questions from a live reporter, and insisted instead on receiving faxed questions to which it could reply with canned... More...

A Fleet Credit Card Services customer has discovered a serious flaw in one of the bank's Web sites, apparently revealing private details of hundreds of thousands of transactions. The details, viewed by MSNBC.com, include Social... More...

Internet fraud is expected to cost at least £50m this Christmas, with thieves using the card details of unsuspecting customers to buy a host of expensive goods online, analysts believe. Criminals are increasingly turning to... More...