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Online Fraud Expected To Grow 43 Percent This Holiday Season In The US
November 23, 2016

‘Tis the season for giving and for scamming. With the holidays around the corner, ACI Worldwide is warning that U.S. retailers should brace for a 43 percent growth in fraudulent activity online this holiday season compared with last year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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NSA Chief Gets Candid On State Of US Cybersecurity
November 22, 2016

NSA Chief and head of the U.S. Cyber Command Adm. Michael Rogers sat down with the Wall Street Journal recently to discuss the ever-growing threats to cybersecurity and some of the massive attacks that impacted the U.S. in recent years. Get the Full Story Complete...

October Visa Data Shows Rise In EMV-Enabled Merchants
November 22, 2016

Visa said Monday (Nov. 21) that its latest chip data update showed 388 million Visa EMV cards in the U.S. Of those, the firm said there are nearly 181 million chip credit cards in the field and 208.3 million chip debit cards. Get the Full Story...

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The Black Friday Mobile App Blacklist
November 22, 2016

Black Friday isn’t just delivering on the deals this year. Consumers can expect to be presented with hundreds of potentially malicious mobile apps on one of the biggest shopping days of the holiday season. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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Why Insider Threats Are Hurting North American Businesses
November 22, 2016

A new report from Kaspersky Lab revealed that company employees are among the leading cyberthreats to North American companies. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe...

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ATMs Are Spontaneously Vending Cash (Thanks, Hackers)
November 21, 2016

Why make one’s life hard hacking consumer accounts — or taking up armed robbery — when one can get the best of both worlds by directly attacking the banks’ computers and getting ATMs to do things like start spewing cash for no apparent reason? Get...

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Two-Thirds Of Three UK Customers’ Data Compromised In Hack
November 21, 2016

Data breaches are becoming more common these days, and it doesn’t matter which country the company resides in. That’s the case with the latest breach, which reportedly happened to Three UK, the U.K. mobile network operator. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Peru, US Agency Seize $30M In Counterfeit Bills
November 21, 2016

Nearly $30 million in counterfeit nuevos soles and U.S. dollar bills have been discovered and seized by U.S. and Peruvian agents. The bust, carried out under Operation Sunset, yielded the biggest sum in Peru’s history to date. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Increased Fraud Turns Retail Holiday Cheer Into Holiday Horror
November 18, 2016

Omnichannel commerce technology and operations provider Radial released the results of its Annual Holiday Fraud Index today (Nov. 18), which revealed the ongoing risk retailers face of coordinated and sustained fraud losses. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...