November 04, 2015
UK Surveillance Law Probes Deep Into Digital Activity
The draft version of the U.K. government’s new Investigatory Powers Bill was published today, which if passed into law, will establish a new set of surveillance powers and allow security...
November 04, 2015
Changing The Cybersecurity Conversation
In March 2015, addressing a crowd at Innovation Project 2015, retired four-star General Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency, quieted the crowd with his rather sober reality...
November 04, 2015
Goldman Sachs Adds to Its Cybersecurity Startup Portfolio
The cybersecurity firm iboss has garnered a $35 million Series A investment from Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Investing arm. In a release from Tuesday (Nov. 3), the firm said that...
November 03, 2015
Hackers Win $1M Prize For Attacking Apple iOS
Cybersecurity startup Zerodium has awarded a team of hackers $1 million for their ability to find a zero-day discovery related to the Apple mobile operating system. Through its The Million...
November 02, 2015
What’s Next For Cybersecurity Regulations?
No one needs further convincing on the need to tackle cybercrime with regulation. As high-profile data breaches become commonplace, companies are preparing for a spate of regulation with government agencies...
October 29, 2015
Web Host Data Breach Cost 13M Users Their Passwords
The usernames and passwords of millions of users of Lithuanian web hosting company 000webhost may have been compromised as the result of a recent data breach. Forbes reported the possible...
October 28, 2015
Why Visa Is Voicing Support For CISA
In the ongoing debate over the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), Visa has made it clear exactly where it stands when it comes to the use of information sharing...
October 28, 2015
Tracking Employee Spend Down To The Penny
Corporate expense and business travel management firm Penny, which gears its solution to small and medium-sized businesses, wants to help corporations manage employee spending on a broader scale and has...
October 28, 2015
Using Intelligence To Outsmart Cyberthieves
Business Intelligence processes go beyond finding out who’s buying what. In some cases it’s crucial that smaller B2B companies use BI in the never-ending war against cybercrime. Here’s why.
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.