Cyber Security

11 Jan 17 @ 14:32

Millennials are set to outnumber baby boomers in the workplace this year for the first time. With a millennial workforce comes a demand for much more than a pay cheque.... read more

11 Jan 17 @ 14:20

There’s been a lot of discussion in the media recently about the privacy of calls and messages sent via mobile phones, with some commentators advocating apps like WhatsApp as the... read more

10 Jan 17 @ 13:36

According to Deloitte, the active base of fingerprint reader-equipped devices offering biometric security will top 1 billion for the first time in early 2017. Each sensor will be used, on average,... read more

08 Jan 17 @ 12:19

Professor Richard Benham, chairman of the National Cyber Management Centre, has given a severe warning: “A major bank will fail as a result of a cyber attack in 2017 leading to a... read more

13 Dec 16 @ 16:12

Ten years after the founding of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), we present a mid-term report on the industry’s data security efforts. As both cyber attacks... read more

13 Dec 16 @ 14:10

Companies are faced with a two-fold problem: protecting their data from those who have access to it from the inside, and from those who exploit the human factor to access... read more

02 Dec 16 @ 15:47

The Avalanche online crime network, used to target online bank customers with phishing and spam emails, has been dismantled after a four-year investigation by EU law enforcement agency Europol. Avalanche... read more

02 Dec 16 @ 15:31

Police have shut down a fake credit card factory used to supply bank cards to criminals across Europe. Gabriel Yew, 45, was one of three men to be sent down... read more

01 Dec 16 @ 13:03

The words to the infamous Notorious B.I.G’s ‘90’s hit may be a spurious lead, but stay with me. Buyer remorse is set to turn Black Friday into Blue Monday for... read more

28 Nov 16 @ 16:52

In a very good blog, originally posted on Withoutfire.com, John Elliott, a payments / privacy / cyber security / risk specialist has some very interesting views and theories on the Tesco... read more

25 Nov 16 @ 10:58

We live in a world with a transactional data landscape. Every minute of every day, simply by going about our normal day-to-day activities, we are generating information through the payments... read more

24 Nov 16 @ 09:45

As the dreaded Black Friday draws nearer, iovation is predicting a significant increase in CNP fraud – fraudulent transactions where a credit card is not physically presented to a merchant... read more