Global Security Watch > 40 Million Credit Cards Hacked

[EarthLink Protection Blog] A third party payment processor's--Card Systems--systems were hacked into recently. The company processes payments and transcations for MasterCard.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Protectionblog.net] EarthLink Protection Blog: Although I had EarthLink Spyware Blocker installed on my computer (it comes with our free TotalAccess software), I realized I hadn’t done a spyware scan for some time. (The latest version of our free Spyware Blocker now also proactively blocks known spyware as it tries to install itself on your computer, but the earlier version I had would only detect and disable spyware that was already on your PC.) So I had hope.

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