Poss Argus payments hack

[walkerr]

The likely hood of malware on your computer picking up your cc details and sending them to Mr Scumbags is higher than a secure site being hacked.

I'm just advising to make sure that the weak spot in security isn't your own computer.

 

Very true - that was my leaning when it was 1 incident. Now it seems others have been affected, that seems less likely. Still possible of course, both people could have PCs with the same virus - but that seems more coincidental than a payments processor or issuing bank attack.

 

I did advise the first person to do a virus check - which is actually pretty hard on a PC that may already be infected. Modern viruses are more than capable of disabling an AV program once they get into a system. Some even disable other viruses so that they don't raise alarms about a possible infection.

 

The more incidents that arise with Argus payments though - the less likelihood it is of being a localised PC infection. Will post updates as and when I hear them

Edited September 6, 2013 by walkerr

[The_black_stig]

try to setup a SMS notifications when any payment is being made by the credit card, that's one way to keep track of your account's activities.

 

quite a possibility that a sniffing script was in the client's PC, as Max has point out the user should also keep his/her PC in check for these kind of things (before raising security concern to the event-entry management site)

[walkerr]

try to setup a SMS notifications when any payment is being made by the credit card, that's one way to keep track of your account's activities.

 

quite a possibility that a sniffing script was in the client's PC, as Max has point out the user should also keep his/her PC in check for these kind of things (before raising security concern to the event-entry management site)

 

Good advice on SMS - something I do with my local card, which luckily happens to be the one I used for Argus entry.

 

(see note above on this seeming to be more than 1 isolated incident. Still sound advice though on keeping PC AV amd malware tools up to date)

[whistler]

Thanks for heads-up.

 

No problem my side luckily, banks now also have this 3D-secure option where you get a one time pin via SMS with each credit card transaction. But have not seen it utilized by all online shopping/entry pay gates. (the one's I have used at least)

[walkerr]

It does seem a bit variable whether that gets used. Have bought on Computicket when it's gone through 3d secure (or Bankserv equivalent). As you say though, not all sites seem to use it.

[andydude]

Dipslick, why are you shouting?