Global Payments Says Data Breach Investigation Turned up a Second Breach
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Global Payments, the electronic transaction-processing firm which acknowledged a data breach in April related to a suspected 1.5 million payment card numbers, yesterday said its ongoing investigation into that is turning up another issue: "potential unauthorized access to servers containing personal information collected from a subset of merchant applicants."
[Background: Global Payments says fewer than 1.5 million cards affected in data theft]
In a statement it put out, Global Payments said, "It is unclear whether the intruders looked at or took any personal information from the Company's systems; however, the Company will notify potentially-affected individuals in the coming days with help[...]
Continue Reading[Background: Global Payments says fewer than 1.5 million cards affected in data theft]
In a statement it put out, Global Payments said, "It is unclear whether the intruders looked at or took any personal information from the Company's systems; however, the Company will notify potentially-affected individuals in the coming days with help[...]
Dept. of Energy throws millions at a startup trying to make solar energy mainstream
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The U.S. Department of Energy wants normal Americans to start using solar energy in their everyday lives. To that end, it’s just granted $2 million to Solar Mosaic, a sort of Kickstarter for solar projects.
Solar Mosaic is still in a quiet pre-launch period, but its projects have so far collected more than $350,000 in interest-free investments from 400 individuals, and the first five projects have together generated 73kW of clean solar energy (that’s more than half a million dollars’ worth of energy) and added more than 2,700 job hours for workers in areas such as Oakland, Calif., and the Navajo Nation in Arizona. The startup has a special focus on projects that are create[...]
Continue ReadingSolar Mosaic is still in a quiet pre-launch period, but its projects have so far collected more than $350,000 in interest-free investments from 400 individuals, and the first five projects have together generated 73kW of clean solar energy (that’s more than half a million dollars’ worth of energy) and added more than 2,700 job hours for workers in areas such as Oakland, Calif., and the Navajo Nation in Arizona. The startup has a special focus on projects that are create[...]
Qualcomm aims at better battery life with Summit Micro buy
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Any buyer of a new LTE smartphone will have noticed that battery life in handsets is getting worse rather than better. The increasing complexity of today?s radio technologies and mounting demands of larger screens and more powerful processors, have all conspired to make new smartphones much bigger power hogs compared to their predecessors. But Qualcomm just bought a chip company that will help it solve that problem.
The San Diego-based wireless silicon vendor on Monday said it has acquired Summit Microelectronics for an undisclosed amount. Summit makes programmable chipsets designed to optimize power performance in portable electronics and networking infrastructure.
Based out of Sunnyvale, C[...]
Continue ReadingThe San Diego-based wireless silicon vendor on Monday said it has acquired Summit Microelectronics for an undisclosed amount. Summit makes programmable chipsets designed to optimize power performance in portable electronics and networking infrastructure.
Based out of Sunnyvale, C[...]
Hackers Claim to Steal 110,000 SSNs From Tenn. School System
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A hitherto unknown hacking group claimed responsibility for a hacking attack on a county school system in Tennessee that may have exposed the names, Social Security Numbers and other personal data belonging to about 110,000 people[...]
Continue ReadingRockYou acquires social bingo game maker Ryzing
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Social gaming company RockYou has acquired Ryzing,a developer of the game Bingo by Ryzing. That title has been available since 2010, but RockYou took over as publisher earlier this year.
The Ryzing team has six members, including chief executive Manu Gambhir. The game has more than 75,000 daily active users and it has a unique twist on Bingo that gets around restrictions on cash payouts by awarding users prizes via a sweepstakes method. The company has developed a real-money, proprietary gaming platform. If online gambling is legalized, it would be a simple matter for the Bingo game to be converted to real-money gambling, Gambhir told us earlier this year.
Terms of the deal were not released[...]
Continue ReadingThe Ryzing team has six members, including chief executive Manu Gambhir. The game has more than 75,000 daily active users and it has a unique twist on Bingo that gets around restrictions on cash payouts by awarding users prizes via a sweepstakes method. The company has developed a real-money, proprietary gaming platform. If online gambling is legalized, it would be a simple matter for the Bingo game to be converted to real-money gambling, Gambhir told us earlier this year.
Terms of the deal were not released[...]
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