March 27, 2017
DoJ Charges Man With $100M Business Email Scam
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced plans to charge a man allegedly responsible for a $100 million business email compromise scam. Recent reports said the DoJ plans to charge...
March 24, 2017
Hacker Tracker: Mysterious Cyber Gang Goes After Apple
It’s been an interesting week when it comes to Apple’s cybersecurity news. Whether a mysterious “crime family” is really out to compromise iCloud and .mac accounts is yet to be...
March 24, 2017
Pew Reveals What Americans Know About Cybersecurity
It turns out Americans don’t know as much about cybersecurity as they probably should. Despite the increasingly connected digital world many people operate in today, new data from the Pew Research...
March 24, 2017
Smart Sizzles, Dodd-Frank Fizzles And Sears Might Be Signing Off?
Live by the fickle consumer, and, if you’re a (very) aging retailer, possibly die by the fickle consumer. In commerce, history only goes so far, while memory does not stretch...
March 23, 2017
In Bangladesh Heist, Following the Money Through Cyber Twists: Nation...
“Follow the money,” the shadowy figure known as Deep Throat whispered to a pair of intrepid D.C.-based reporters during the dark days of Watergate more than 40 years ago. The...
March 23, 2017
Is eBay’s Two-Factor Authentication Change Less Secure?
Cybersecurity news and investigation blog KrebsonSecurity reported that it received an email from eBay that noted some recent changes to the company’s login experience. According to the report, eBay is...
March 23, 2017
“Hackers-For-Hire” Tried To Swipe Baidu’s Driverless Car Tech
Chinese tech giant Baidu revealed that a group of hackers attempted to steal the company’s driverless car technology. Ma Jie, Baidu’s head of cybersecurity, told Bloomberg News that while it...
March 23, 2017
American Malware Helped Russia Spy On iPhones
A recent cybersecurity investigation revealed that a surveillance tool created by a small malware merchant in the U.S., Killer Mobile, was being used by Russia to spy on Android and...
March 23, 2017
Elevating Travel Payments Without Causing Friction
Journeys to even the most scenic of destinations can often be fraught with payments friction, but mobile payments and other new technology is starting to make travel transactions easier. In...
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.