Internal Revenue Service (IRS) impersonation scams have been hurting U.S. taxpayers for years, and now, government officials are announcing that 20 people in the U.S. have been arrested and two more people have been brought into custody over IRS scams. Get the Full Story Complete...
Last year, merchants and banks felt fraud losses reach $21.84 billion on all credit, debit and prepaid general-purpose and private-label payment cards issued globally. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
Danish payment processor Nets notified local banks and international card schemes on Wednesday (Oct. 26) of a data breach that could have impacted 100,000 credit cards. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
MediaPro, a security training vendor, found in a new a survey that 88 percent of employees lack the awareness to stop preventable cyberincidents. What’s more, 16 percent of respondents scored low enough to warrant a “Risk” profile by exhibiting behaviors that put their organizations at...
The U.S. government is mandating financial institutions to disclose details about cyberattacks when submitting reports on fraud and money laundering. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
The investigations into last week’s massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack — which took down major sites, like Spotify, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter and GitHub — have shown that the likely culprit behind the attack was a non-state actor. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
The weaponizing of the Internet of Things (IoT) is here. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this...
Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, the Chinese manufacturer of webcams linked to a huge cyberattack in the U.S., is gearing up to recall the devices. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
Bluefin Payment Systems, a provider of PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solutions for retail, health care and higher education, announced Tuesday (Oct. 25) that it has introduced a cloud-based hosting option for its Decryptx PCI-validated P2PE product through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Get the Full Story...
