The blogging platform said accepting bitcoins will open up payments from countries not served by PayPal and credit cards.

The data will eventually give a greater insight into the trade in stolen card details, said CloudEyeZ founder Dan Clements.

The new Zeus version injects rogue debit card-related offers into popular websites.

Helpful features could move this card-swiping system ahead of Square and Intuit GoPayment in mobile payments.

Heartland Payment Systems figured it was in pretty good shape when it took out a $30 million cyber insurance policy. Unfortunately, the credit card transaction processor was the victim of a massive data breach in early 2009 that resulted in losses estimated at $145 million. The insurance company did pay Heartland the $30 million, but the company was on the hook for the remaining $115 million.

About 3,400 of the 360,000 compromised credit card accounts were hit with fraud.

Via Technologies is shipping a do-it-yourself computer kit, called Artigo, that's based on the credit card-sized Pico-ITX motherboard announced by the company earlier this year.

Credit card thieves are becoming big-time charity donors, but it's not out of the goodness of their hearts.

An Azusa, Calif., man was arrested on federal charges Thursday after allegedly using fake e-mail accounts to trick America Online Inc. users into sending him their personal and credit card information so he could make illegal purchases with their information.