March 10, 2014
“We Saw Target’s Breach Before it Happened”
06 March 2014 Mobile commerce continues to grow, yet many merchants aren’t prepared to handle the nuances associated with it. Fraud prevention is one factor, but knowing which online transactions...
March 10, 2014
Bitcoin Tracker: March 7
Link to live trading on the various markets Follow 93 Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations here Bitcoin Tracker | Week 14 So, the big news of the week is that we now, finally,...
March 05, 2014
TSYS Authorization Controls℠ Provides Issuers And Cardholders Greater Security
The recent rash of data breaches has many card issuers and their cardholders on edge, not knowing whether a compromised card could be used fraudulently and without their immediate...
March 04, 2014
Neiman Marcus: Up To 1 Million Cards Exposed
The CEO at luxury retailer Neiman Marcus released a statement this week noting that the company’s recent data breach affected as many as 1 million debit and credit cards, Bank...
March 04, 2014
Chase’s Prepaid Exit Affords No Simple Explanation
By Gloria Colgan, Managing Director, Market Platform Dynamics (@gkcolgan) Ah, the challenges of commercial prepaid. When JPMorgan Chase recently announced the potential sale of its government and commercial prepaid card...
February 05, 2014
WebLinc’s Hill: ‘Scary’ To Consider A Biometrics Breach
Hacker’s accessing improperly stored credit card data is one thing, but what if Target or Neiman Marcus had been storing customers’ biometric information instead? Merchants storing encrypted biometric data is...
January 22, 2014
Malware Attacked At Least 6 U.S. Retailers
BlackPOS, the point-of-sale (POS)-targeting malware implicated in the most recent data-breach attack, has been discovered attacking at least six other U.S. retailers. While IntelCrawler, a cybersecurity firm, has not publicly...
January 22, 2014
Visa Warned Of POS Malware
Visa reportedly issued warnings twice in 2013 to retailers, including Target, that a point-of-sale (POS) malware attack was a serious threat. The revelation suggests that Target and others impacted by...
January 22, 2014
Chase’s Prepaid Exit Affords No Simple Explanation
By Gloria Colgan, Managing Director, Market Platform Dynamics (@gkcolgan) Ah, the challenges of commercial prepaid. When JPMorgan Chase recently announced the potential sale of its government and commercial prepaid card...
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.