The business of payments and commerce is not war — despite all that tough motivational talk that insists otherwise, almost always from people who’ve never suffered through combat — but war, and the preparation for it, has a way of influencing business. Just look at the...
Few things make a sporting event more interesting than wagering a few bucks (or more) — whether it be a football game between two mediocre teams or a baseball playoff. That’s just a fact of life, known since the first cavemen competed to see who...
Fraudsters are nothing if not actors. Some of them are quite good, perhaps even worthy of an Oscar (or at least a Golden Globe), while others remain stuck on the level of grade-schoolers doing a poor imitation of their siblings. None of this is meant...
Look-alike domains are increasingly finding favor with criminals eager to rip off online shoppers, according to a new report from Venafi, a cybersecurity firm. Its research found that the “total number of certificates for look-alike domains is more than 200 percent greater than the number...
Discussions about ID theft often involve hackers and cyberattacks gaining access to consumer and payment data. But action from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday (Sept. 18) showed how eCommerce can enable other forms of ID theft. The federal agency said it shut...
Doppelgängers are real — but they’re not phantom twins in pre-modern German fairy tales: they are online, and they can be used to steal digital identities. Since the 2017 Equifax scandal, consumers know all too well that their data is up for grabs somewhere on...
Who are you? And who do you want to be — especially before disparate audiences and peer groups? Don’t worry — this is not an intro to a freshman philosophy class (a fair number of philosophy majors make bank with hedge funds and tech, though,...
Banking during the pre-digital days involved transport. One had to visit a branch — and remember, there is a reason people still joke about bankers’ hours — wait for an employee and fill out paperwork. But in a new PYMNTS interview, DataVisor CEO and Co-Founder Yinglian...
If the saying is that there is nothing new under the sun, only new ways to say it, then let’s extend the sentiment to payments. There’s nothing new under the sun. There are just new ways to steal it. The fact remains that technology has...
