Bitcoin saw a new all-time record high on Monday (Nov. 30), rising above $19,800 in the morning and resting at 19,633.264 at 7:32 p.m. Eastern Time. The high price point beat its previous record high, set in 2017, CNBC reported. Bitcoin’s price has been steadily...
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky is reporting there has been an uptick in ransomware attacks this year, with many specifically targeting municipalities and their subset organizations. Kaspersky researchers studied 174 municipal institutions and their 3,000 subset organizations that were targeted in 2019. The number alone shows that...
In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Also, cybersecurity company Kaspersky is putting a spotlight on the increase in fake browser notifications this year. And the pre-orders are coming in for...
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky is highlighting a rise in fake browser notifications this year, according to a press release. The company said affected users have tripled every month in 2019. In June, Kaspersky noticed a Google calendar scheme that tried to trick users into giving away...
November 26, 2019
In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Also, cybersecurity company Kaspersky is putting a spotlight on the increase in fake browser notifications this year. And the pre-orders are coming in for Tesla’s so-called “cybertruck,” days after shattered glass embarrassed the automaker […]
August 21, 2017
This week, Americans will have something of a rare opportunity in the digital age: The chance to all do the same thing at once. That same thing will, of course, be...
September 03, 2021
Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky detected 1.5 billion attacks against Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the first half of this year, using “honeypots,” software that impersonates a vulnerable device, the company’s research department said in an email to PYMNTS on Friday (Sept. 3). Kaspersky’s research found that there were twice as many attacks compared to […]
November 30, 2020
Bitcoin saw a new all-time record high on Monday (Nov. 30), rising above $19,800 in the morning and resting at 19,633.264 at 7:32 p.m. Eastern Time. The high price point...
December 11, 2019
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky is reporting there has been an uptick in ransomware attacks this year, with many specifically targeting municipalities and their subset organizations. Kaspersky researchers studied 174 municipal institutions...
November 25, 2019
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky is highlighting a rise in fake browser notifications this year, according to a press release. The company said affected users have tripled every month in 2019. In...
