May 01, 2014
SWIFT To Help Customers Detect Financial Crime
SWIFT has recently expanded its scope of services from payments to compliance, including the launch of its KYC Registry. More recently, it launched multiple initiatives to help banks better manage...
April 29, 2014
Target Appoints New Chief Information Officer and plans to enable...
Target has announced two major initiatives this morning, both with the potential to change the retailer’s immediate future significantly. Bob DeRodes will join the company as executive vice president and...
April 29, 2014
Do Digital Devices Drive In Store Sales?
New research says that in-store sales driven by use of smartphones, tablets and home computers represent a much larger share of overall retail sales than originally understood. And, merchants may...
April 26, 2014
Small And Midsize Businesses Most Vulnerable, Latest Verizon Breach Report...
Though the Target and Neiman Marcus breaches late last year have received significant attention, a new report out by Verizon suggests the security emphasis should be on smaller entities that...
April 25, 2014
Bitcoin Tracker Week 21
Bitcoin traded in the in a fifty dollar range going from as low as about $450 and as high as $506, ending at $464 at about 7am EST on Friday....
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.
April 23, 2014
Hackers Targeting POS And Web Apps
According to a Verizon’s annual report on data breach investigations, hackers in 2013 were particularly invested in Web application attacks, cyber-espionage and point-of-sale intrusions. Finance suffered the most at the hands...
April 19, 2014
The Heartbleed Bug Effects More Than Just Software…
The Heartbleed bug remains the biggest story in online security this week as countless organizations nationwide tested to see if they were vulnerable or if they had been victimized. It...
April 18, 2014
Michael’s Data Breach More Wide Ranging Than Initially Thought
Michael’s, the America’s largest chains of arts and crafts stores, announced Thursday that 2.6 million credit and debit cards used in its stores may have been effected by the breach....
Cryptocurrency exchanges are grappling with the EU’s PSD2 as they look to craft seamless experiences for their global customer bases. In the “Authenticated Payments Report,” a PYMNTS and LoginID collaboration, Marcus Hughes, of crypto exchange Coinbase, explains how platforms must build authentication measures that satisfy consumers and evolving regulations.