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The Monsters Of Payments And Commerce
Merchant Innovation // October 31, 2015

The haunted commerce season officially comes to a close tonight after the last trick-or-treater departs. Most Americans will, at this point, determine they were either over-prepared for Halloween and now face weeks of eating candy for breakfast, or discover that they were underprepared and thus...

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Security Flaw Found In German Banks’ Retail Payment Systems

December 23, 2015
Cybersecurity researcher Karsten Nohl discovered a critical vulnerability in the retail payment systems of several German financial institutions. As Reuters reported Tuesday (Dec. 22), the security flaws revealed by Nohl have the potential to compromise payment card PINs and enable fraudsters to steal funds from both merchant and customer accounts and create fake cards. According […]