April 18, 2016
Why Apple Isn’t Worried About The Government (For Now)
While Apple engineers don’t consider the U.S. government part of their “primary threat model,” they seem to have handily evaded the government’s attempts to gain access to one of the...
April 18, 2016
Experts Warn Against Connected Car Hacking
According to Eugene Kaspersky — the founder of Kaspersky Lab and an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity — cars connected to the Web will represent a desirable target for hackers in the...
April 18, 2016
Pressure Mounts For IRS Chief To Resign Over Breach
A Republican lawmaker is calling for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to step down. Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA) is putting pressure on the head of the IRS to resign due to the...
April 15, 2016
Most Consumers Don’t Ditch Breached Companies
For companies that may have been breached, don’t fret — you may not lose your customers. A new study shows that consumers don’t tend to cut off their business ties with those...
April 15, 2016
US Government Ranks Last In Cybersecurity Report
When comparing the cybersecurity performance of U.S. federal, state and local government agencies to 17 major private industries, the public entities held strong in last place. According to the “2016...
April 14, 2016
President Obama Names MasterCard, Uber And Microsoft Execs To Cybersecurity...
The White House has announced the names of those to be appointed by the president to the new Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. To be included in the discussion will...
April 13, 2016
500M Digital Identities Exposed In 2015
New research from Symantec estimates that over half a billion identities were stolen or exposed online last year, along with even more companies not reporting the true extent of data...
April 07, 2016
Zerodium Puts Security Hacks Up For Sale
This cybersecurity startup is making waves in the industry, but not for how it’s fighting crime. Instead, Zerodium publicly offers significant sums to hackers who are able to expose the types...
April 06, 2016
Could Retail Job Growth Actually Save Companies Money?
With the latest U.S. employment statistics showing an increase in retail jobs, it could be reasonably presumed that some companies in the space are spending more by paying more workers....
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.