Developments in technology often push the boundaries of security. Three-dimensional printing, for example, reportedly for years has enabled card thieves to make card skimmers that fit over the card slots on ATMs, gas pumps and in-store point-of-sale devices.
A Canadian hip-hop band, Aint No Love, reportedly has released the first album that accepts bitcoins.
New York lawmakers reportedly plan to include smart chips in all credit cards the state issues. The proposal, in a state Senate bill, would help improve their ability to ward off counterfeit fraud, something today’s magnetic-stripe cards fail to do.
Since late January 2014, eBay’s board of directors and activist investor Carl Icahn have been fighting over the future of PayPal, eBay Inc.’s payment subsidiary. After a months of accusations, arguments and insults, the battle seems to be over as both sides move toward compromise....
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. “The Department of Motor Vehicles has been alerted by law enforcement authorities to a...
Given the string of recent controversies surrounding bitcoin – from the fall of Mt. Gox, to the suicide of the CEO of one exchange – some have begun forecasting the inevitable downfall of the digital currency. Internet pioneer and venture capitalist Marc Adnreessen is not...
Americans can take online shopping for granted because it is so ubiquitous. Almost any legal good or service is available to them with nothing more than the click of a button. eCommerce is not so easy in many other parts of the world, however. In...
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...
Link to live trading on the Bitcoin markets. Follow 189 Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations here. Bitcoin Tracker | Week 16 Oh, there they are! We found those missing bitcoins! Well, at least $116M of them. But since the Feds froze the assets of Mt. Gox...
