July 20, 2015
Data Breaches Make Cybersecurity An Investor Darling
The rise of data breaches is becoming more widespread, hitting companies all over the globe working in an array of industries, leaving devastating results in their wake. But venture capitalists...
July 17, 2015
US May See More Massive Cyberattacks
It is no longer a matter of if the U.S. will fall victim to massive cyberattacks, it is just a matter of when. At least that seems to be the consensus...
July 17, 2015
eBay Earnings Call Ballad: Auld Lang Syne
It’s the final countdown for eBay and PayPal today (July 17) as they enjoy their last hours together. From the multitude of voices on yesterday’s (July 16) eBay’s earnings call, one thing was clear:...
July 17, 2015
Hackers Supply A Threat To Wholesale Distributor Grainger
The B2B eCommerce site Grainger, which supplies maintenance, repair and operating products globally, confirmed Tuesday (July 14) that its network fell victim to a cyberattack in early June. Grainger’s IT...
July 17, 2015
Cybercrime Site Darkode Goes Dark
An online forum, among one of the more successful English-language forays into cybercrime, was shut down on Wednesday (July 15), and authorities around the world arrested 28 people connected with...
July 16, 2015
Fed Still Hasn’t Alerted 21.5M Data Breach Victims
In the two months since discovering that the sensitive personal information of 21.5 million Americans was compromised by a hack of U.S. federal computer networks, the government has yet to officially...
July 16, 2015
Why United Airlines Gave Hackers Millions Of Frequent Flyer Miles...
If we were to tell you that today hackers are walking around with a few million frequent flyer miles care of United Airlines, your first thought might be that they...
July 14, 2015
RedOwl Lands $17M To Advance Behavioral Analytics
RedOwl, a provider of insider risk management and security analytics, announced yesterday (July 13) that it secured $17 million in Series B funding, led by Allegis Capital. The funding round...
July 14, 2015
Google Bets Big On Cybersecurity with $100M Investment
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike announced the completion of a $100 million Series C funding round yesterday (July 13), led by Google Capital. Rackspace also participated in the round, along with existing...
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.