January 19, 2016
Trustwave Sued For Breach Investigation ‘Failure’
Data protection and security company Trustwave is being sued by Affinity Gaming for allegedly being unable to mitigate a cyberattack that negatively impacted its business, ZDNet reported Monday (Jan. 18). The cybersecurity firm...
January 19, 2016
Securing The (Technologically Advanced) Joneses
Can security methods advance at the same pace as technology innovations in the payments space? This week’s Retail Security Tracker takes a look at how new offerings in mobile payments,...
January 15, 2016
Hyatt Data Breach Details Exposed: 250 Hotels, 50 Countries
Hyatt Hotels has released more details on the data breach the hotel chain initially reported last month. While the company discovered the breach in November, it now knows — thanks...
January 15, 2016
WISeKey/Kaspersky Pair On Wearables Security
Global digital security solutions company WISeKey and cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab are joining forces to help protect wearable devices from the threat of cyberthieves. As the use of mobile and contactless payments with...
January 13, 2016
The Science Of Fighting Fraud
A psychologist, biologist, anthropologist and physicist walks into a high tech cybersecurity firm…. Seriously. Psychologists, biologists, anthropologists and physicists are among the six or seven profiles who fraud technology...
January 13, 2016
How One Cybersecurity Startup Knows Who’ll Be Breached
QuadMetrics is taking an offensive approach to fighting cybercrime. The cybersecurity firm says it can predict the likelihood that a company will become the victim of a data breach with...
January 12, 2016
Israel’s Cyber Expertise Driving Connected Car Security
Some of the best hope right now for preventing the digital takeover of vehicles is coming out of Israel. The cybersecurity firm Check Point — which, as a recent Reuters story...
January 12, 2016
GM Turns To Hackers For A Helping Hand
From ride-hailing apps like Uber to traditional manufacturers like General Motors, change is coming to the old-fashioned automobile from more directions than the Model T. Between turning cars into Wi-Fi-connected...
January 12, 2016
The IT Case Against Backdoor Encryption Access
While government agencies continue to push for backdoor access to encrypted information systems, a recent survey showed 63 percent of IT professionals remain opposed to the idea. According to 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.