April 10, 2017
Data Dive: New Things Edition – Wells Fargo, Amazon And...
As always, those keeping up with the mainstream news cycle are likely feeling the normal Monday morning nervousness today — though perhaps given the rather militaristic flavor of the last few...
April 07, 2017
Bitcoin Tracker: A Bitcoin In Spring
A beacon of hope has emerged for bitcoin just in time for spring — and it’s brought up prices with it. While the world’s most popular cryptocurrency recently suffered some...
April 07, 2017
Hacker Tracker: Kaspersky Labs Runs The DDoS Attack Numbers
One of the main drivers in the popularity of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks among cybercriminals is the favorable cost-profit ratio. Companies that are targeted by this type of extortion can...
April 07, 2017
Congress Mulls SME Cybersecurity Legislation
A bill that would encourage SMEs to follow cybersecurity guidelines is making its way through Congress as an addition to existing legislation encouraging the same of large corporates. Reports this...
April 07, 2017
Industry Experts Sound Cybersecurity Call To Action
Cyberspace is opening up new battle fronts between individuals, corporations and even nations. At Innovation Project 2017, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Jim Stavridis and a panel of cyber...
April 06, 2017
Prognosis For Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Dire
On Wednesday (April 5), Terence Rice, VP and chief information security officer at Merck & Co., told the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Committee on Energy and...
April 06, 2017
The Great Identity/Authentication Confusion
At this year’s PYMNTS Innovation Project, Admiral James Stavridis, NATO’s former Supreme Commander, said that one of the biggest points of compromise that cybercrooks exploit is the login. And that...
April 06, 2017
Taking The Y2K Fear Factor Out Of Same Day ACH
Thankfully, those turn of the century Y2K doomsday scenarios were a big fizzle, but there were still lessons to be learned. For the April Faster Payments Tracker™, PYMNTS spoke with...
April 05, 2017
Standalone McAfee Launches With A Charge To Remain Relevant
McAfee, the maker of antivirus and firewall security that was acquired by Intel in 2011 for $7.7 billion, has been spun out and as of Tuesday (April 4) is a...
Digital bill pay, while routine for most consumers, poses challenges such as fraud, friction and limited payment options — particularly in the utilities sector, where consumer trust is low. This edition of the “Money Mobility Tracker®,” a collaboration with Ingo Payments, examines how billers and financial institutions can earn trust among consumers.
There’s no shame in asking for help. Eighty-two percent of merchants experienced a cyber or data breach in the last year, and PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 300 eCommerce executives, “Fraud Management in Online Transactions,” a collaboration with Nuvei, details merchants’ thoughts about fraud prevention, finding that outsourced methods correlate with fewer failed payments.