Tag: CITIBANK

As mobile banking becomes more popular, security threats will grow -- unless banking institutions keep a close watch on their customers' personal information. According to The Wall Street Journal, users of Citibank's iPhone application were recently exposed to a security threat because a previous version of the app had stored personal information -- including account numbers, bill payments and ...

Note: Update after the break Blippy, a service that lets users share what they purchase, has shot itself in the foot by accidentally leaking users' credit card numbers, days after seemingly hitting the big time by raising $11.2 million and getting profiled in The New York Times. Owen Thomas of VentureBeat discovered that a simple Google search would reveal some users' credit card numbers, and ...

Does Citbank hate the gays? That's what some headlines regarding the Fabulis fiasco may lead you to believe, but the story is rather convoluted. Jason Goldberg, CEO of Web startup Fabulis, had his site's new account blocked by Citibank earlier this week and questions about the bank's rationale are looming. Fabulis is a social networking site for gay men, onto which users upload videos ...

We have seen no greater example of exactly why we are in our current dire financial straights than the new MySpace-branded credit card. In what we can only assume is a conspiracy by News Corp (owner of MySpace, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal) to ensure that the younger generation will be subject to the same crippling debt that we are, the social networking service has lent its brand name ...

Over the years, we've covered many, many Nigerian scams -- the sort where you'll get an e-mail out of the blue indicating that someone in Nigeria (or another nearby country) will wire you some amount of money if you give them your account information. Naturally, these hackers are just trying to rip you off, and we're hoping that you're wise to their game. We're horrified to learn that ...

With the economy looking shaky (thanks, in part, to bogus computer simulations), and more and more banks being bailed out with federal funds, you might be thinking that the inside of your mattress is the safest place for your cash right now. If not, please allow us to give you a few more reasons to think twice before signing that deposit slip, courtesy of a disconcerting article at Wired ...

So you follow your bank's advice to the letter when it comes to ATM security: You don't let someone snoop over your shoulder why you're using it, you don't stand there to count your cash immediately after withdrawal, and, most importantly, you've chosen a PIN that isn't "1234." Good for you, you're doing your part. Sadly, though, it seems that Citibank, and two companies that operate thousands of ...