August 24, 2015
Business Security Gets Crowdsourced
As the nature of security threats, both physical and cyber, continue to evolve so have the strategies companies are using to combat the sophisticated nature of these criminal activities. One...
August 24, 2015
China Takes A Second Look At Bank IT Procurement Bans
Earlier this year, China raised eyebrows when reports said the nation’s officials had banned state-run agencies, including banks, from procuring IT services from foreign suppliers, including Apple, Cisco, IBM and...
August 24, 2015
Taxpayers Sue IRS Over Data Breach
While the Internal Revenue Service is still dealing with the repercussions of the massive cyber attack that compromised the data from tax returns for roughly 330,000 people, now it is...
August 24, 2015
Facebook’s Cybersecurity Platform Hits Critical Mass
More than 90 companies are now using Facebook’s cybersecurity platform ThreatExchange to share security and threat information.
August 24, 2015
China Cracks Down On Cybercrime With 15K Arrests
Chinese police arrested 15,000 people for allegedly committing cybercrimes, which came as a result of the investigations of more than 7,400 cases involving offenses such as hacking, online fraud and...
August 21, 2015
Cybersecurity Firm iSight Eyes $100M Funding Round
Cyber intel company iSight Partners plans to raise $100 million or more in the coming months as it prepared for an initial public offering slated for early 2016.
August 21, 2015
Big Banks Consolidate Efforts To Clean Up Data
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are teaming up to clean and store reference data at a cheaper price than it would cost for them to do undertake the...
August 20, 2015
How Government Employees Are Putting Data At Risk
Federal employees using personal devices are putting those devices and sensitive data at risk, according to a new study released Wednesday (Aug. 19). According to Lookout, the mobile security company,...
August 18, 2015
FireEye Partners Up To Fight Cybercrime
Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) has inked a deal with cybersecurity company FireEye in an ongoing effort to combat cybercriminals in Europe.
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.