April 18, 2019The last several years have seen a surge in efforts among the cryptocurrency community to legitimize the technology. Once seen as a tool for the dark web and black markets, ...
April 18, 2019The New York District Attorney’s (DA’s) office has shut down one of the largest drug vendors on the dark web, sinmed, as well as arrested the three men who allegedly ...
April 18, 2019Payfone announced that it has secured a $24 million funding round, led by TransUnion. The funding also included participation from existing investors Synchrony, MassMutual Ventures, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ...
April 15, 2019Not every innovation is a good innovation. Some, like the pet rock, are merely fads. Others, like the iPhone, are change-the-world impactful. Then there are others that are clever but ...
April 12, 2019It’s the end of a busy week, one full of news about payments and commerce. We here at PYMNTS are as excited about the weekend as you are, but before ...
April 12, 2019As flowers are blooming in real gardens for spring, innovative ideas are blooming metaphorical gardens in payments and commerce. Things are getting faster and easier to purchase across channels, there’s ...
April 12, 2019Australian small business cloud accounting company MYOB is calling for legal action to address the security risks facing small businesses, reports in CIO said on Thursday (April 11).
MYOB Country Manager ...
April 12, 2019Fraudsters are always evolving and now are training BEC scams to focus on HR and finance departments. Separately ACH debit and ACH credit fraud are both on the rise, according ...
April 12, 2019The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represented a new phase in data security and EU regulators’ approach to it. Designed to safeguard consumers with greater transparency into how, when and ...
April 11, 2019Like it or not, pornography — among the most ancient human creative endeavors — is a central player in the digital world we inhabit.
By some accounts, pornography played a central ...
April 11, 2019 Consumers want to be able to use their smartphones to scan or look products up and make payments — even when they are shopping at their neighborhood markets. Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solutions ...
April 11, 2019Three years after fraudsters made off with $101 million from a Bangladesh bank, cyber threats have evolved, according to a new report by SWIFT. The bad guys wait quietly for ...
April 10, 2019A report by Bloomberg said that after one of the biggest cyber heists in history involving the theft of $100 million from the Bangladeshi central bank’s account in the U.S. ...
April 10, 2019A study by Symantec, a cybersecurity company, showed that two out of every three hotel sites have leaked personal data, which could include credit card and passport information, according to ...
April 10, 2019There is no shortage of wonders in payments and commerce, which are advertised as the next big disruption in how consumers transact. Instant payments, voice and visual search, AI/ML digital ...
April 10, 2019While corporates are adopting stronger internal controls to combat the threat of payments fraud, new data from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) reveals the number of incidents has continued ...
April 10, 2019U.S. authorities announced that they have charged a number of individuals in connection with one of the biggest healthcare frauds ever prosecuted in the nation.
The Medicare fraud case has accused ...
April 10, 2019Here’s a bit of heresy for 2019: Data’s not everything.
Sure, data often gets called the oil of the digital age — and data, as a commodity, has an economic, political and ...
April 9, 2019A new type of phishing scam targets the HR departments of companies and asks for reroutes on direct deposit accounts, CNBC reported. Once the changes are made, a paycheck will ...
April 9, 2019The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Business Banking is calling for a new investigation into Lloyds and how much its executives knew about the ongoing mistreatment of small business ...
April 8, 2019An Israeli startup that creates anti-fraud services that deal with online transactions wants to raise $200 million for expansion, according to a report in Bloomberg.
Riskified, which was founded in 2013 ...
April 8, 2019Worldwide spending on information technology is expected to reach about $4 trillion in 2019, according to a report by CNBC.
Those numbers come from global research and advisory firm Gartner, ...
April 8, 2019RiskLens, a cyber risk management software company, has raised $20.55 million in a series B funding round, according to reports.
The round was led by Paladin Capital, and MassMutual Ventures, ...
April 8, 2019Western countries are gearing up to create cybers strategies aimed at preventing foreign countries like Russia and China from lodging internet attacks and manipulating social media to attack political systems.
According to ...
April 5, 2019Dozens of cybercriminal groups have found a home on Facebook, using the platform’s online marketplace to sell illegal services such as stolen credit card information, as well as account theft ...
April 5, 2019 In the UK, might the fraudsters be getting ahead of the firms they are bilking? A recent study from Vocalink points to that sentiment, while SAS finds significant instances of ...
April 5, 2019When it comes to combating payments fraud, it helps to have insight from one who’s been in the trenches.
Stacy Arruda, a former special agent with the FBI and now executive ...
April 4, 2019Credit union (CU) associations and service providers are pushing for the adoption of technology to help with security and compliance. In retail, Western Union has teamed up with Dollar General ...
April 4, 2019Every year, nearly 2.8 million students enroll in college for the first time, and many arrive with bank accounts tied to their hometowns. For on-campus credit unions, that’s a problematic ...
April 4, 2019The threat of cyberattacks continues to grow, and small businesses (SMBs) are caught in the crosshairs.
The latest research in small business cybersecurity has revealed the relentless nature of the threat, ...
April 3, 2019The threat of a small business cyberattack has introduced a conundrum for the rising InsurTech market. The demand for cyber insurance is on the rise, with the sector expected to ...
April 3, 2019 Cybersecurity is more important than ever for credit unions (CUs), but keeping up with compliance and the latest best practices can be a challenge. Smaller CUs don’t always have the ...
April 2, 2019Spend control isn’t easy — just ask Google and Facebook, which confirmed in 2017 they were among the corporate victims of a widespread phishing attack that tricked businesses into paying ...
April 1, 2019 Digital solutions have made their way into the gig economy, with more workers than ever utilizing digital marketplaces that pair companies with talent from around the world. These days, however, ...
April 1, 2019When it comes to online shopping, one of the greatest frustrations for consumers — and friction points for merchants — is having to manually enter credit or debit card information ...
April 1, 2019Synthetic ID fraud costs banks $2 billion a year. The bad guys are so crafty that the credit bureaus are unwitting accomplices to the fraud. Traditional methods of catching ID ...
March 31, 2019The FBI has announced a directive shift away from counterterrorism and toward fighting the increasing threats from cyber attacks, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The move ...
March 29, 2019Close to 1 billion email accounts were leaked by a marketing company in what some researchers are calling the “biggest and most comprehensive email database” breach ever.
The Daily Mail ...
March 29, 2019Sinemia, the movie subscription service in direct competition with MoviePass, surprised customers by cancelling a number of accounts, according to a report by TechCrunch.
“Sinemia is a FinTech company in the ...
March 29, 2019Onboarding employers and freelancers worldwide onto gig marketplaces, swiftly and safely, is complicated stuff — but platform user bases can help, Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie tells PYMNTS. In this month’s ...
The last several years have seen a surge in efforts among the cryptocurrency community to legitimize the technology. Once seen as a tool for the dark web and black markets, ...
The New York District Attorney’s (DA’s) office has shut down one of the largest drug vendors on the dark web, sinmed, as well as arrested the three men who allegedly ...
Payfone announced that it has secured a $24 million funding round, led by TransUnion. The funding also included participation from existing investors Synchrony, MassMutual Ventures, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company ...
Not every innovation is a good innovation. Some, like the pet rock, are merely fads. Others, like the iPhone, are change-the-world impactful. Then there are others that are clever but ...
It’s the end of a busy week, one full of news about payments and commerce. We here at PYMNTS are as excited about the weekend as you are, but before ...
As flowers are blooming in real gardens for spring, innovative ideas are blooming metaphorical gardens in payments and commerce. Things are getting faster and easier to purchase across channels, there’s ...
Australian small business cloud accounting company MYOB is calling for legal action to address the security risks facing small businesses, reports in CIO said on Thursday (April 11).
MYOB Country Manager ...
Fraudsters are always evolving and now are training BEC scams to focus on HR and finance departments. Separately ACH debit and ACH credit fraud are both on the rise, according ...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represented a new phase in data security and EU regulators’ approach to it. Designed to safeguard consumers with greater transparency into how, when and ...
Like it or not, pornography — among the most ancient human creative endeavors — is a central player in the digital world we inhabit.
By some accounts, pornography played a central ...
Consumers want to be able to use their smartphones to scan or look products up and make payments — even when they are shopping at their neighborhood markets. Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solutions ...
Three years after fraudsters made off with $101 million from a Bangladesh bank, cyber threats have evolved, according to a new report by SWIFT. The bad guys wait quietly for ...
A report by Bloomberg said that after one of the biggest cyber heists in history involving the theft of $100 million from the Bangladeshi central bank’s account in the U.S. ...
A study by Symantec, a cybersecurity company, showed that two out of every three hotel sites have leaked personal data, which could include credit card and passport information, according to ...
There is no shortage of wonders in payments and commerce, which are advertised as the next big disruption in how consumers transact. Instant payments, voice and visual search, AI/ML digital ...
While corporates are adopting stronger internal controls to combat the threat of payments fraud, new data from the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) reveals the number of incidents has continued ...
U.S. authorities announced that they have charged a number of individuals in connection with one of the biggest healthcare frauds ever prosecuted in the nation.
The Medicare fraud case has accused ...
Here’s a bit of heresy for 2019: Data’s not everything.
Sure, data often gets called the oil of the digital age — and data, as a commodity, has an economic, political and ...
A new type of phishing scam targets the HR departments of companies and asks for reroutes on direct deposit accounts, CNBC reported. Once the changes are made, a paycheck will ...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Business Banking is calling for a new investigation into Lloyds and how much its executives knew about the ongoing mistreatment of small business ...
An Israeli startup that creates anti-fraud services that deal with online transactions wants to raise $200 million for expansion, according to a report in Bloomberg.
Riskified, which was founded in 2013 ...
Worldwide spending on information technology is expected to reach about $4 trillion in 2019, according to a report by CNBC.
Those numbers come from global research and advisory firm Gartner, ...
RiskLens, a cyber risk management software company, has raised $20.55 million in a series B funding round, according to reports.
The round was led by Paladin Capital, and MassMutual Ventures, ...
Western countries are gearing up to create cybers strategies aimed at preventing foreign countries like Russia and China from lodging internet attacks and manipulating social media to attack political systems.
According to ...
Dozens of cybercriminal groups have found a home on Facebook, using the platform’s online marketplace to sell illegal services such as stolen credit card information, as well as account theft ...
In the UK, might the fraudsters be getting ahead of the firms they are bilking? A recent study from Vocalink points to that sentiment, while SAS finds significant instances of ...
When it comes to combating payments fraud, it helps to have insight from one who’s been in the trenches.
Stacy Arruda, a former special agent with the FBI and now executive ...
Credit union (CU) associations and service providers are pushing for the adoption of technology to help with security and compliance. In retail, Western Union has teamed up with Dollar General ...
Every year, nearly 2.8 million students enroll in college for the first time, and many arrive with bank accounts tied to their hometowns. For on-campus credit unions, that’s a problematic ...
The threat of cyberattacks continues to grow, and small businesses (SMBs) are caught in the crosshairs.
The latest research in small business cybersecurity has revealed the relentless nature of the threat, ...
The threat of a small business cyberattack has introduced a conundrum for the rising InsurTech market. The demand for cyber insurance is on the rise, with the sector expected to ...
Cybersecurity is more important than ever for credit unions (CUs), but keeping up with compliance and the latest best practices can be a challenge. Smaller CUs don’t always have the ...
Spend control isn’t easy — just ask Google and Facebook, which confirmed in 2017 they were among the corporate victims of a widespread phishing attack that tricked businesses into paying ...
Digital solutions have made their way into the gig economy, with more workers than ever utilizing digital marketplaces that pair companies with talent from around the world. These days, however, ...
When it comes to online shopping, one of the greatest frustrations for consumers — and friction points for merchants — is having to manually enter credit or debit card information ...
Synthetic ID fraud costs banks $2 billion a year. The bad guys are so crafty that the credit bureaus are unwitting accomplices to the fraud. Traditional methods of catching ID ...
The FBI has announced a directive shift away from counterterrorism and toward fighting the increasing threats from cyber attacks, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The move ...
Close to 1 billion email accounts were leaked by a marketing company in what some researchers are calling the “biggest and most comprehensive email database” breach ever.
The Daily Mail ...
Sinemia, the movie subscription service in direct competition with MoviePass, surprised customers by cancelling a number of accounts, according to a report by TechCrunch.
“Sinemia is a FinTech company in the ...
Onboarding employers and freelancers worldwide onto gig marketplaces, swiftly and safely, is complicated stuff — but platform user bases can help, Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie tells PYMNTS. In this month’s ...
