April 22, 2015
Discover CEO: EMV Rollout Will Be Rocky
During Discover’s first-quarter earnings call with analysts yesterday (April 21), CEO David Nelms offered something of a reality check on the coming EMV migration and liability shift. “I think, more...
April 22, 2015
HP And FireEye Join Breach-Fighting Forces
HP and cybersecurity company FireEye are partnering to beef up HP’s security consulting business and give FireEye more global reach, the companies announced on Tuesday (April 21). Under the deal,...
April 22, 2015
Virginia Launches First State Cybersharing Organization
Virginia has launched a project to build the first state-level organization for sharing cybersecurity threat information between the government and the private sector, the state’s governor, Terry McAuliffe, announced on...
April 21, 2015
Raytheon’s Retail Play
Cybersecurity firm Raytheon has made a $1.7 billion dollar bet that it can translate the security skills it currently brings to bear for its military and intelligence clients into protection...
April 21, 2015
Liberty Reserve: Serving The Unbanked Or The “Underworld”?
Merchant acquiring can be a competitive and complicated business. New players especially need an angle, an innovation, something to differentiate what and how they serve their merchants. Arthur Budovsky was...
April 21, 2015
Cybersecurity Bill Inches Closer To Legislative Approval
It hasn’t been swift or without controversy, but the cybersecurity legislation is making its way through the ranks on Capitol Hill. The Data Security And Breach Notification Act of 2015, as...
April 21, 2015
Booz Allen: IoT Will Force Enterprises Into “Active Defense”
The Internet of Things (IoT) is about to make cybersecurity a lot more difficult — and also dramatically different, according to a new set of predictions from security consultants at...
April 20, 2015
Cybersecurity’s Billion Dollar Bonanza
It would be hard to argue that the year-and-a-half long spree of data breaches that has hit targets ranging from the retail store to the White House itself has been good...
April 16, 2015
Data Breach Notification Legislation Moves Forward
The controversial data breach notification legislation made its way past the committee level yesterday (April 15) when the House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the measure 29-20. The Data Security and...
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.