First it was Target and the world was shocked at how easy it was for a massive number of cards to be stolen. Then there was Michaels, P.F Chang’s, Home Depot and Staples (among many others) and 2014 is the year of the data breach,...
Data breaches in retail are seemingly becoming the "news of the day." It’s crossed multiple types of merchants and categories, costing companies an average of $11.6 million. The time needed to recover from a breach is up 130 percent. In a new whitepaper, ThreatMetrix reveals...
There are few subjects that highlight the chasm of opinions between payments players quite like EMV. That EMV is coming: of that there can be no doubt. In a little more than a year, merchants will either have to have to upgrade their terminals to...
On Friday, October 24, the fifth and last day of Retail Reinvention Week, join us in a live digital discussion held at 11 AM EST and hosted by Market Platform Dynamic's Gloria Colgan to find out who really owns the POS and customer data, and...
Just the news we all wanted to hear: cybercrime black markets are getting to be much more efficient, well-organized and better able to profit from stolen payment data. As those efficiencies squeeze out more profits, the incentive for more large-scale cyber attacks increase. Get the...
Just under half of U.S. consumers with payment cards say they would avoid shopping this holiday season at retailers who suffered data breaches in the past year, Chain Store Age reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
The day after Apple rolled out its Apple Pay payments system with fingerprint authentication, Google announced that it is adopting a different sort of hardware to replace passwords: an industry-standard USB key, according to Secure ID News. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
More than six times as many malware attacks on Android systems were registered this year than last year, according to a report released Tuesday (Oct. 21) by Kaspersky Lab and Interpol. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
When retailers began accepting Apple Pay on Monday (Oct. 20), it was inevitable that there would be glitches. So far, there seems to be about 1,000 of them, most notably in the form of double-charges at various Apple Pay partner retailers for customers presenting their...
