Contactless payments improve the speed of payments but could hit a brick wall at the point of sale if transactions exceed a certain amount. In this month’s Digital Identity Tracker, PYMNTS spoke with NatWest’s David Crawford, head of effortless payments, about how the bank developed...
Looking to tighten up security, Google is exploring adding biometric scans for password and payments to its Android Autofill options. The move, according to Android Central, will attempt to address concerns that Google’s password protection has often been less secure than it could be. For...
News aggregation platform Flipboard has revealed that it suffered a data breach that went on for nine months. “We recently identified unauthorized access to some of our databases containing certain Flipboard users’ account information, including account credentials. In response to this discovery, we immediately launched...
Some of OkCupid’s users have reported that their accounts have been hacked, although the dating site is denying it has experienced a security breach. A user who contacted reporters revealed that a hacker broke into his account and changed his password, as well as his...
July 20, 2021
Despite all the digital advances and connectivity achievements that facilitate our daily lives, one simple fact still threatens the stability and security of the entire enterprise: 50 percent of us still recycle our passwords. It may seem like a small problem that is relatively easy to fix. Still, Bill Leddy, vice president of authentication and […]
August 10, 2017
Fraud is constantly evolving, so why shouldn’t digital identity protection? The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently updated its Digital Identity Guidelines, to include authentication — and the scope...
January 12, 2020
Looking to tighten up security, Google is exploring adding biometric scans for password and payments to its Android Autofill options. The move, according to Android Central, will attempt to address concerns that Google’s password protection has often been less secure than it could be. For example, when one uses Google Autofill, a prompt to fill […]
May 30, 2019
News aggregation platform Flipboard has revealed that it suffered a data breach that went on for nine months. “We recently identified unauthorized access to some of our databases containing certain...
February 11, 2019
Some of OkCupid’s users have reported that their accounts have been hacked, although the dating site is denying it has experienced a security breach. A user who contacted reporters revealed...
September 01, 2016
In hacking, as in politics, ruining people is considered sport. As noted by Business Insider on Wednesday (Aug. 31), login details tied to as many as 70 million users from Dropbox wound...
