August 05, 2015
JPMC Speeds Up Cybersecurity Spending Timeframe
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is leaping forward to double its cybersecurity spending budget. The move comes after the company suffered a massive data breach in June last year resulting in...
August 05, 2015
A Unicorn Is Born: Zscaler Raises $100M And Snags A...
[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] It has been a good year to be a cybersecurity entrepreneur — and business is booming since cybercriminals have had a busy and productive year...
August 04, 2015
Zscaler Cloud Security Platform Pushes Into $1B Milestone
Zscaler, an Internet security company, made an announcement yesterday (Aug. 3) that the company has joined the ranks of companies valued at more than $1 billion. With the help of a $100...
August 03, 2015
China’s Plan To Balance Internet Finance Giants’ Market Power
China’s biggest Internet companies such as Alibaba and Tencent may be forced to offer the payment options of their rivals.
August 01, 2015
Attacking Hackers: The Next Security Frontier?
“It has been attack after attack after attack. My business has skyrocketed. I feel like I should send the Chinese a Christmas card saying thank you for a wonderful year.”...
July 31, 2015
Why The FBI Can’t Keep Up With Cyberattacks
Cybercriminals are having no problem upping the number of attacks they spread across various industries, but The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly struggling with maintaining enough staff to ward...
July 30, 2015
Anthem Hackers Suspected In United Airlines Breach
The massive hack on the Office of Personnel Management stole plenty of recent headlines, with its widespread impact and concerns over just how it was able to go undetected for a...
July 30, 2015
JPMC Hacking Investigation Continues
The government is keeping its inquiry into the cyberattack that impacted 83 million JPMorgan Chase accounts —about 76 million households and 7 million small businesses — going strong.
July 30, 2015
How MasterCard Threads The Digital Payments Needle
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga says that a complicated digital payments ecosystem requires that every payment player “find its own thread.” Banga tells investors what threads MasterCard is pulling, and 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.