August 19, 2016
Why Bitcoin And Ransomware Seem To Go Hand In Hand
As the instances and threat of ransomware continues to wreak havoc on both businesses, governments and individuals around the world, it seems as though bitcoin has found itself closely intertwined...
August 18, 2016
Sage Hack Should Be Wake-Up Call, Says SaaS Firm
Software company Hypersocket Software is warning businesses that they should pay attention to what the recent data breach at accounting company Sage means for them. In an release on Wednesday (Aug....
August 17, 2016
Brexit A Private Investment Blip In The UK?
Who’s afraid of the Brexit vote? It may not be U.K. tech companies and the folks who invest in them. Data at the tail end of last month showed that,...
August 17, 2016
Apple To Invest In China, Open Up Joint R&D Center
Apple, dealing with a maturing iPhone market in the U.S. and declining demand in China, is raising its investments in the Asian country by announcing it is building a research...
August 16, 2016
Group Of Hackers Claim To Breach NSA Hackers, Auctioning Off...
NSA’s team of elite hackers has reportedly been compromised, with an anonymous group, calling itself Shadow Brokers, saying it breached the systems used by the NSA’s elite team of hackers that...
August 16, 2016
Supply Chains Link Up With IoT
The supply chain may be going global, but for many companies, it remains more opaque than ever. Enter: the Internet of Things. The potential for IoT technology in supply chain...
August 15, 2016
Payroll And Accounting Firm Sage Caught In A Data Breach
It’s a good morning for hackers – not so great for fans of cybersecurity. It seems that apart from the big hotel breach that sent tends of thousands of payment transactions...
August 15, 2016
Hackers, Installment Loans And Apple Hopes For The Gold
Most Americans can tell you one thing they learned in the last week. They should have made different choices, trained hard and gone for the Gold in the Olympics. Whether...
August 12, 2016
FAIR, National Institute of Standards and Technology Come Together To...
The FAIR Institute, a nonprofit aimed at developing standard information risk management practices, announced on Thursday (Aug. 11) it teamed up with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to...
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.