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Why is it hard to prevent scalpers from using bots to buy up lots of concert tickets?
The New York Times recently has an article that talks about how scalpers are using bots to programmatically buy up lots of concert tickets, making it harder for ordinary fans to buy up tickets. For ...
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Detecting skimmers and other ATM traps
This question has been bothering me ever since I first heard of ATM skimmers:
Instances of skimming have been reported where the perpetrator has put
a device over the card slot* of an ATM ...
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Candidate authentication in large scale assessment
First of all, I'd like to apologize beforehand if the questions I am about to ask are not really suitable for this site. I could not think of any other category to post under. Right, here goes.
We're ...
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how can my bank have a wrong phone number entered with my personal account information?
the other day at our bank, while my wife and i were transferring some funds between accounts, we found that on one of the accounts, a phone number that has no relationship to either of us was listed ...
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Any reference to this old ATM fault (collecting one of the notes before the rest will be taken back) [closed]
For an article I am writing, I would need to know if this fault was also in other countries and if so, I would really appreciate ANY link to newspaper/whatever so I can prove it.
It is an old fault ...
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Source code auditing and fake builds
I am wondering about source code auditing and how hard it would be to fake a build to be audited? Let me explain.
Say I would be a dishonest programmer that would wish to put in some backdoor into ...
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How much can you trust a (banking) site after it spams you? [closed]
How much can you trust a company that send you spam ?
Many people, after registering with Moneybookers(Skrill) started to receive spam that included their real name (as inputted in Moneybookers ...
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Preventing online voter fraud
As part of a promotional campaign, my company wants to launch a site where users (and potential users) of our product will be required to register and vote for certain choices. Depending on how ...
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What is the severity of a fake certificate?
I'm not a security specialist, thus reading this Google Blog post about a fake *.google.com certificate, raises a lot of concerns, if anyone can impersonate a website, especially a google website, my ...
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How is Chase Mobile Deposit Secure?
Chase has this app that allows you to snap a picture of a check with your phone and deposit that check into your account.
How do they prevent:
Someone from depositing a check that's not written to ...
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Credit card fraud prevention
The project that I am working on requires processing of credit cards. Is there any way to detect cloned/counterfeit cards? Are there any proven workarounds to prevent credit card fraud or misuse?
We ...
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What's the impact of disclosing the front-face of a credit or debit card?
There are quite a few cases where people are called out for disclosing the front-face of a credit or debit card (e.g. this tweet from Brian Krebs or this twitter account). So I was wondering what the ...
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How to prevent pay per show/click abuse?
We have a webapp. 3rd party websites put our banners on their pages (banner is a snippet of HTML). They are paid for it using "Pay per click" or "Pay per show" methods.
So 3rd party website's owners ...
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Giving merchant account information to web programmer
Our web programmer needs our merchant account information to set up our ecommerce site. He is asking for the "processor name", "processor ID" and "merchant ID". If I provide him with the information ...
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Dealing with excessive “Carding” attempts
We are currently setup using Magento on a LAMP stack for our e-commerce platform. As of a month or two ago we began noticing a lot of carding attempts against our website. All attempted transactions ...
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Best way to handle identity theft incident?
A user's email is hacked, contacts copied, and similar emails (look alike emails with minor spelling differences) are created by the attacker with the same name and avatar, sending relatively well ...
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I may have given a check to a scam organization is my account at risk
Can someone take money from my account with a check that has my routing number and my account number on it? I STUPIDLY gave a check to a "charity" organization that I cannot find on line and when I ...
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I need ideas for blocking a single malevolent user
Let me throw out this problem I'm having to some of my technical peeps and see if you guys have any new suggestions:
We have a website that sends text messages and voice mails for our clients. ...
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How to prevent cheating (extra votes) in online contests?
Mitigating Cheating & Voter Fraud in Online Contests…
We run online contests of various sorts that involve users voting on entries (usually one vote per user per day). The prizes range from ...
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Trying to prevent Cisco toll fraud
A little back story on the setup first; We have a Cisco VoIP setup at our remote office(where I'm at) and the main CCM/CCX/Unity setup is at the parent company across the US in Connecticut. We have ...
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What is the use of stolen credit card details?
What can a person with stolen credit card details do?
Buy porn?
Buy tons of server resources to perform an attack?
What else? I'm sure that if he buys books, shoes and bicycles or transfer funds ...
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Fraud prevention on online transactions
We operate an e-commerce website, and we're facing some big problems with payments. Very often, some customers get credit card data and use those in our store. So when the real credit card owner gets ...
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Fraud Mitigation - Card Present Transactions
When it comes to fraud screening for card not present transactions (credit card / debit card) there are a number of techniques / services that can be utilized to mitigate risks from fraudulent ...
