When it comes to data breaches, the ones involving payment-card systems will still top concerns for 2015, according to a new report from Experian. Experian’s second annual Data Breach Industry Forecast predicts that with the looming deadline for U.S. retailers and card issuers to adopt...
Just under half of U.S. consumers with payment cards say they would avoid shopping this holiday season at retailers who suffered data breaches in the past year, Chain Store Age reported. But there’s a big problem with that statistic: Historically, even huge data breaches have...
New evidence suggests that an underground cybercrime ring — or rings — may be involved in the merchant-data breaches taking place recently. The fact that point-of-sale malware can be acquired with relative ease on the Internet, as well as signs from security officials that multiple...
December 05, 2014
When it comes to data breaches, the ones involving payment-card systems will still top concerns for 2015, according to a new report from Experian. Experian’s second annual Data Breach Industry Forecast predicts that with the looming deadline for U.S. retailers and card issuers to adopt EMV chip-and-PIN technology in October 2015, cyberthieves will shift into […]
October 23, 2014
Just under half of U.S. consumers with payment cards say they would avoid shopping this holiday season at retailers who suffered data breaches in the past year, Chain Store Age...