During a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing last week, U.S. Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) questioned Target's chief financial officer, John Mulligan, about the preventative measures the company could have taken to prevent last winter’s data breach.
Jumio’ new Bitcoin-related security system sounds like it came out of a science fiction novel. Under its innocuous name, Bison (Bitcoin Identity Security Open Network), the system aims to instill greater trust and confidence in a virtual currency ecosystem beset with security headaches, according to...
More fallout this week from the Target breach, as a lawsuit filed by two banks implicated Trustwave, the company responsible for ensuring Target’s PCI Data Security Standard compliance, as allegedly failing to detect obvious signs of weakness preceding the breach reported in December.
In her commentary column in the March 24 PYMNTS newsletter, Market Platform Dynamics’ CEO Karen Webster asked whether now is the time to hit the pause button on EMV. She’s not alone in sharing that view, as more payments-industry insiders are wondering whether the push for...
Trustwave, the company responsible for ensuring Target’s PCI Data-Security Standard compliance, allegedly failed to detect obvious signs of weakness preceding the breach reported in December, according to a lawsuit filed by two banks.
In the latest of the string of data breaches that have accompanied the beginning of 2014, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has reportedly been the latest target of cyber-criminals. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
Richard Clarke's assessment of the state of cybercrime in the U.S. started quite the conversation at The Innovation Project. So much of one, that it got MPD CEO Karen Webster to thinking about EMV's future as a "must-have" security protocol for card fraud. She's come...
Hackers seems to be taking a break (OK, we know they’re not). But there were no major merchant data breaches to report again this week. Perhaps the plenty of activity around creating and introducing defense mechanisms is having an affect.
Secure payment-technology provider Bluefin announced today it became the first company in the U.S. to receive PCI validation for a point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution. While the PCI Security Standards Council, which provided the validation, has been around for some time, no other company has achieved...
