July 14, 2014
Hotels, The Newest Hotbed Of Cyber-Thieves Hacktivities
Business travelers have yet another security concern when they are on the road, particularly if they are frequent flyers at their hotels’ business centers. According to new information reported on...
July 09, 2014
Is The U.S. Facing An Economy-Crippling Cyberattack?
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) - worries that the U.S. banking system is dangerously vulnerable to acts of cyber-warfare that could fundamentally damage the entire economy. To...
July 03, 2014
Brazilian Fraudsters Target Almost $4 Billion in Payments
Economic benefits from hosting the 2014 World Cup aren’t the only thing hitting the Brazilian economy right now. It has come to light that Brazil might be dealing with an...
May 28, 2014
How VeriFone Helps Merchants Beat the Fraudsters
Guess what. Fraudsters don’t discriminate: small and large merchants are equally at risk. But many small merchants don’t think so and are taking a “wait and see” approach to implementing...
May 22, 2014
CyberSecurity Goes Collaborative
Retail leaders’ efforts to come together in the fight against cybercrime took a new turn recently with the formation of a sharing center to pool their knowledge. Their efforts were...
May 12, 2014
General Electric Beefs-Up Security Commitment With Acquisition Of Wurldtech
GE announced Friday that it has agreed to purchase cyber-security firm WurldTech as one of several recent moves to “help protect critical infrastructure and advance cybersecurity efforts globally for key...
May 06, 2014
Standing with the Startups
This week, the funding gods smiled on innovators who are reinventing the ways in which consumers borrow, merchants acquire customers, and issuers keep cardholder data safe. Find out who got...
April 29, 2014
Shh, These Startups Are Still Working On Changing The Future
What rolls, floats among the clouds and allow complete security? The start-ups in this week's Start-up Roundup! We have AdRoll changing the face of marketing, Luminol and Electric Cloud securing...
April 24, 2014
Retailers Continue to Spend Billions on Data Security
The National Retail Federation testified before a field hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
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.