Do you know … How many billions of dollars will be lost to credit card fraud this year? How many consumers have no idea what NFC is or what it’s for? Or how many tax returns the IRS had in by tax day on April...
Advertised as a wallpaper app for Andriod phones in the Google play store, “Bad Lepricon” malware hijacks end-user devices like smartphones and tablets for the purpose of the computationally intensive process of mining bitcoins. To escape detection, the malware monitors the phone for battery life...
Bitcoin traded in the in a fifty dollar range going from as low as about $450 and as high as $506, ending at $464 at about 7am EST on Friday. Our volatility index shows Bitcoin at a whopping 29 times more volatile than the euro....
A patent originally filed in October 2010 was assigned to MasterCard International, Purchase, NY, according to Insurance News Net. The patent was developed by a team of five members, and offers “methods for risk management” in mobile devices like smart phones that can be used...
There is no one in the financial services industry that likes identity theft, but after 20 years of watching it climb consistently upward annually, a certain level of acceptance has set in. Fish have swim, birds have fly and fraudsters have to steal consumers identities,...
A state lawmaker in Massachusetts reportedly has introduced a bill that would require banks to install added security measures at their ATMs, and representatives for both the ATM and banking industries are fighting it. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Hackers are taking advantage of the Heartbleed situation. Customers’ session tokens remain vulnerable allowing hackers to masquerade as a legitimate authenticated user. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...
Beacondo is free for anyone to use and will provide a simpler way to create iBeacon-supported apps.
The National Retail Federation testified before a field hearing of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies.
