Using biometrics to authenticate a consumer doesn’t go far enough, some say, to really prevent fraud. Fingerprints, retina scans, even facial recognition can still be spoofed. There’s one thing, Karl Martin, Nymi’s Founder and CEO, says that can’t be – and he and his team...
The U.K. is taking major steps to boost its cyber defenses and surveillance in the wake of terrorist attacks around the world.
The PYMNTS team caught up with experts in the payments field to ask them their views on industry trends, predictions for the coming year and what their ideal payments system looks like. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
This week, EMV remained center stage in retail security news, as the battle between banks and retailers over fees and adoption of new security measures continued to play out on a very public stage. Meanwhile, a number of other security issues, some surrounding EMV, also...
Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) vendors enable developers to connect back-end cloud infrastructure to their apps and push various services, but security researchers are now casting doubts on how secure these BaaS applications truly are. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
Handwriting analysis has become a popular subject for criminologists thanks to TV procedurals like “Law & Order” and “CSI,” but what if the pseudoscience could be put to use to keep smartphones and mobile devices more secure than regular passwords can? Get the Full Story...
First Data, the eCommerce company, and payments hardware giant NCR Corp. are now partners in a strategic agreement, the two companies said on Monday (Nov. 16). Financial terms remain undisclosed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Payment fraud losses amounted to $16.31 billion last year — with card-not-present fraud forecasted to reach 40 percent of that total at $6.4 billion by 2018 in the U.S. alone. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
Though the shift to the chip cards tied to EMV had a major turn in the press, it seems that that the days leading up to the actual Oct. 1 liability handoff had still left many consumers in the United States unaware of just what...
