Mobile payments are all the rage and rightfully so. They make purchasing easy to do and require consumers to carry one less item on them. But there is also a dark side of mobile payments, and it’s apparently rearing its head with Samsung Pay. That’s...
As technologies advance and digital endpoints increase, the job of authenticating that people are who they say they are gets tougher. Sunil Madhu, CEO of Socure, joined Karen Webster for a discussion on what the digital identity landscape really looks like today and how that...
Despite all the sophisticated tools that basement-dwelling hackers have at their disposal, often, the best way of obtaining information you otherwise shouldn’t have is by taking the path of least resistance. As Walmart shoppers are finding out now, that path is as simple as asking...
The 2016 Rio Olympics kicked off on Friday (Aug. 5), and there are already hackers out targeting Brazilian banks. 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...
A brazen gang of criminals that used oil tanks to blow up and rob ATMs in Scotland were collectively sentenced to 36 years in jail. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
In the wake of disruption by hackers last week that caused Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex to lose $72 million, the firm said customers would lose 36 percent of assets held through the digital platform. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
It has been a rough few months for high profile social media accounts – Mark Zuckerberg has been hacked, as has Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. All through the magic of password hacking – and the fact that even tech CEOs don’t follow...
Not everyone is being swept up in the Pokémon GO craze. Cybersecurity firm LookingGlass has been hired by power utility companies in Florida to get Pokémon off the map. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...
Most people will never once think about their SAT score once they’ve submitted it to the college of their choice. But for a brief but highly meaningful amount of time, most budding American college students (and their parents) stress big time about taking the SAT...
