In June of 2017, it’s kind of impossible to talk about hackers without talking about Russia. Russian cyberattacks hit systems in 39 U.S. states in the months leading up to the 2016 election, insiders told Bloomberg News this week. Previous reports tallied just over half...
Should global payments be a point of friction for ISVs with an international reach? Paysafe’s SVP of sales and business development, Carla Erlick, explains to PYMNTS how expanding reach and scale need not create barriers between ISVs, merchants and their customers.
From retail to healthcare, enterprises seek to validate identities in real time. With the emergence of mobile and the continued push by payments as an activity into the digital realm, companies must balance customer service and security. Identity verification company Trulioo just launched a new...
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced in a press release the launch of a new IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Industry Connections program: Digital Inclusion through Trust and Agency. The program will bring together technology innovators, industry movers, policy and legal experts...
While there aren’t many good things one can say about cybercriminals and the chaos they’ve created, in at least one sense you kind of have to hand it to them — they’re pretty clever. “You work hard to lock up your front door against them,” Karen...
A group known as the Shadow Brokers published on Good Friday a set of confidential hacking tools used by the NSA to exploit software vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows software. According to Fortune, Microsoft announced on the same day that it had patched the vulnerabilities related to the NSA...
In payments, as in so many areas of business, capital is oxygen, and it is also a vote of confidence from those putting up the funds. As of Tuesday morning (March 7), after closing a new round of funding, ID.me can breathe freely. The firm...
Online payment service provider eMerchantPay recently released details of its new One Time Token (OTT). The token will allow merchants not compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard to collect payment card data on their checkout pages. OTT is a tokenization service, which replaces data...
Across the U.K., the questions surrounding Tesco’s cybersecurity breach remain: Whodunit — and how? At the moment of this writing, there are precious few answers. As has been widely reported, the thefts from the bank — stretching across roughly 20,000 accounts — remain shrouded in...
