This week the Heartbleed bug was made public and many sites like eBay; Etsy and PayPal are giving advice to merchants who are worried. “Merchants need to own and solve the issue themselves,” Z-Firm’s Rafael Zimberoff said. He also gives advice for sellers who operate...
Last year Telefonica announced that were going to partner with CaixaBank and Santander. Now the company says that they will be launching the money transfer service within the next few months, according to Mobile World Live. The program will offer two services; one will be...
Deck: Spring just doesn’t seem to have spring just yet for the Bitcoin market, despite the plethora of news around Bitcoin. Innovators continue to be hopeful and a new Bitcoin debit card has come to market, but news from Australia and China has tempered the...
Alipay, the payment unit of Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, plans to invest CNY 40 million in order to create an online payment security investment fund, according to Telecompaper. The fund will focus on mobile payments and created with other companies. The company believes that...
PayPal also posted a blog advising users that there was no need to take additional action or change passwords. “While we always advise our customers to be cautious and aware of the security of their personal and financial information, in this case we want to...
In March the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ruled that Bitcoin would be taxed as property and not currency. In many ways this defeated the purpose of recognizing the cryptocurrency as a medium. Now the Crypto Crimson is reporting that Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) is proposing...
Well, it might not constitute breach news per se – or it doesn’t yet anyway– but the announcement this week that two-thirds of all online websites for the past two years had been vulnerable certainly was. The security flaw, dubbed Heartbleed,” had made openly available...
In 2013, ACH volume grew to almost 22 billion electronic payments, an increase of 4% over 2012 volume. A total of $38.7 trillion supporting consumer, business and government payments was transferred over the ACH Network in 2013, almost a 5% increase since 2012. Jan Estep,...
The Public Record Source, LLC, a twenty year veteran of the public record research experience, launched a cloud based screening platform, AccuRental. The platform was created to include a tenant screening web application that would change the rental property industry with new cloud-technologies. Serving as...
