May 09, 2016
Cyberattacks Have Hit Majority Of Big UK Businesses
The majority of large businesses based in the United Kingdom have been victims of cyberattacks in the past year, new research has posited. As reported by BBC, the attacks have...
May 06, 2016
FireEye Names New CEO
FireEye, one of a slew of cybersecurity firms that have seen shares fall to earth in the midst of a slowing market, said on Thursday (May 5) that it is...
May 06, 2016
Cyber Insurance’s $5B Premiums Prediction
Amid concerns that some sectors of tech are slowing, there is one subset that is likely to keep growing, and that is cyber insurance. One set of forecasts has the...
May 05, 2016
FBI To Companies: Don’t Pay Cyberattack Ransoms
FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director James Trainor is telling businesses that, though ransomware attacks are on the rise, it’s best not to pay hackers when the situation arises. According to...
May 05, 2016
Boy Scores $10K For Uncovering Instagram Bug
Facebook made a $10,000 payment to a 10-year-old Instagram hacker. The boy found a glitch in the picture-sharing social platform’s code and was rewarded significantly by Facebook for the discovery....
May 05, 2016
Watching The Unicorns, With An Eye On Gravity
Our inaugural issue of the Unicorn Watch discusses a few trends to bear in mind as valuations, down rounds and IPOs materialize (or don’t).
May 04, 2016
SMEs’ $3B Security Blunder
Small businesses are increasingly targeted by cyberthieves looking for easy prey. A new report from JAVELIN has uncovered the price of being an easy target. According to researchers, small businesses...
May 03, 2016
Why Banks Dread Same Day ACH
When details emerged last month of SWIFT’s software compromise, it signaled, to some, the likely start of a spree of hacking attempts. Bangladeshi hackers reportedly infiltrated SWIFT’s Alliance Access software,...
May 02, 2016
Where Biz Will — And Won’t — Take A Risk
This week’s B2B Data Digest is all about risk — though, not always in the traditional sense. For instance, there’s the risk of a cyberattack. New data uncovers just how...
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.