June 22, 2015
OPM Data Breach Undetected For A Year
Since the U.S. Government announced a massive security breach on its U.S. federal computer networks at the beginning of June, new information on its origin and spillover effects make the...
June 19, 2015
Cybersecurity Pros Warn Against Insider Threats
Insider threats are on the rise and many companies are not prepared to handle them, results of a recent comprehensive survey showed. The Insider Threat Report, released yesterday (June 18),...
June 18, 2015
App Flaw May Put ‘Billions’ Of Mobile Data Records At...
German researchers have uncovered a defect in thousands of mobile applications, which could leave users’ personal information at risk, Reuters reported yesterday (June 17). The group claims to have found...
June 18, 2015
The Finer Points Of Fraud Detection
Fraud detection is in many ways a numbers game, but that doesn’t mean that more data means more accuracy. As Nuno Sebastião, CEO of Feedzai, recently discussed with MPD...
June 17, 2015
OPM Claims 10M Cyberattacks Stopped Monthly
In the first congressional hearing since the U.S. announced that the data of 4 million current and former federal employees had been compromised, the head of the U.S. Office of...
June 15, 2015
Cybersecurity Firm Targets $80M IPO
Rapid7, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm, confirmed plans to go public when it filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week. The company will seek to raise $80...
June 15, 2015
Could The Emoji Replace The PIN?
The good people at Intelligent Environments say they can do better for security with their Emoji-based passcode system than the traditional numbers-based system. Why? Greater variety of potential combinations – there...
June 13, 2015
Federal Data Breach Broader Than Predicted
Last week the U.S. federal government announced a massive data breach occurred that targeted millions of federal employees. And Friday (June 12), there were new indications of just how deep...
June 11, 2015
OPM Data Breach Appears State-Sponsored, Say Intelligence Committee Members
The online data theft that hit government computers earlier this month appears to have been state-sponsored, according to U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee members, though no nation was officially named. Reuters...
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.