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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is making online payments safer for everyone. Marcia Savage talks to Visa’s risk guru Police in Manchester are investigating the case of a Rochdale woman whose computer files had been encrypted by cybercriminals. The Liberty Alliance Project, the global consortium dedicated to developing open federated identity, strong authentication and identity-enabled web services, today announced Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) as the newest member of the its management board. In a bid to clamp down on internet child pornography, 18 of the world's most prominent financial institutions and internet firms have joined with the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), and its sister organization, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). The goal of the alliance is to eradicate commercial child pornography by 2008. Microsoft and the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) have joined forces to help community banks improve their information security practices. Hackers have struck the Rhode Island state government website, stealing the credit card numbers of more than 4,000 people in a breach much larger than originally thought. A few years ago I took the decision to turn my tax affairs over to an accountant. Not that I earn that much, but I simply can’t figure out all the boxes, and it means having to read the manual which has never been a particularly strong point. Phishing is as lucrative as it is prolific. According to the latest official figures from UK payments body, APACS, phishing scams and Trojan keystroke loggers were behind UK online bank fraud totalling £12m in 2004; while BlackSpider Technologies estimates that nearly seven million phishing emails have been sent across the UK in the last month alone. The vulnerability experts at iDefense Labs challenged hackers to poke holes in Microsoft products by March 31 in exchange for an unprecedented public reward that has some in the industry raising their eyebrows. More than 20 percent of email users receive more than five phishing emails every day, according to a new report. Microsoft today announced the launch of a U.K.-based scheme designed to combat software piracy. The firm said its "Keep IT Real" initiative will form the central plank in a three-year program, also announced today, that aims to reduce the U.K. piracy level for Microsoft Windows by 5 percent. With increasingly extended and dynamic enterprises, the distinction between insiders and outsiders is becoming blurred and what organizations can expect to control is less clear. Visa USA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have launched a campaign to help educate merchants about data security. Hordes of scammers are exploiting the Asian tsunami to prise money from email recipients, it has emerged. 419 scams and phishing attacks are being crafted to extort money from those wishing to help victims of last week’s disaster. Credit Agricole, the number one rated bank in France, has implemented a PKI and smart card-based strong authentication system to beef up access security for its employees and corporate banking customers. Petrol firm Shell has suspended Chip-and-Pin payments in its U.K. petrol stations after more than £1 million ($1.45 million) was stolen from customer accounts. Eight people have been arrested in connection with the fraud. The way to get the executive team to pay attention is to provide a quality ROI on any new initiative. If the boards of directors can’t understand the needs of various departments then the only way to their pocketbook is to present them with a bottom line return on their investment. The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) is implementing a virtual private network to allow people to pay their bills through ATMs. Cingular Wireless took down an online system for customers to retrieve account information after the feature sparked security concerns. A financial messaging firm is deploying more than 10,000 NetScreen products to secure its network.