Businesses may be able to strengthen their fraud defenses by putting the bank connections they already have to fuller use. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “Payment Protection: Why Firms Still Aren’t Real-Time Ready” found in August that nearly all firms have secure access to customer bank...
Cybersecurity will be the artificial intelligence industry’s next big market, in part because of the capabilities of new AI models set to be released by AI labs, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang said Thursday (Sept. 10). Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology...
IDScan.net, a provider of identity verification models, has posted a notification of data security incident on its website. In the notification, IDScan.net said it received information on or around Sept. 1 that some of its data may have been accessed without authorization. The company then...
Ant International is working with Visa and Mastercard to develop a know your agent (KYA) interoperability framework, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 9) press release. The effort is designed to help card networks, digital wallet ecosystems, agent platforms and marketplaces streamline artificial intelligence agent onboarding...
The bitterest pill to swallow for many mid-market CFOs is not that their cybersecurity budget is growing. It is that some of what they already spend has stopped making economic sense. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain-based finance are attacking three different assumptions on which...
Google has begun releasing updates to its Chrome browser every two weeks rather than the previous four weeks, the company said in a Tuesday (Sept. 8) blog post. The new schedule began with the Tuesday launch of Chrome 153 on Desktop, Android and iOS, and...
OpenAI committed $1 billion in subsidized access to its security program, Daybreak, for community and regional banks and other operators of essential services, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 3) blog post. The new global initiative, Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, is also available to...
The FBI is investigating a possible breach that may have exposed scans of millions of American drivers’ licenses, according to Bloomberg News. A bureau spokesperson confirmed the investigation on Thursday. The news lands as identity verification companies face growing pressure to protect the documents they...
There’s a potentially massive driver’s license breach now under FBI investigation. The most consequential impact of the breach isn’t simply its size. It’s what may have been stolen. Criminals are claiming on the dark web to have stolen more than 153 million digital driver’s license...