Cyber Security

21 Mar 16 @ 12:25

A newly discovered Russian hacker group known as Buhtrap has attacked 13 Russian banks since August 2015, using malware that infiltrates their gateway to the central bank, according to Moscow-based... read more

16 Mar 16 @ 12:30

The results of new research in the UK have revealed that 88% of Britons see cybercrime as now being as big a threat as offline crime, whilst 76% of people... read more

02 Mar 16 @ 15:15

Payments Cards and Mobile interviewed Ajay Bhalla of MasterCard to understand what is hot in the world of biometric payments including selfie pay and securing the further digitisation of payments.

02 Mar 16 @ 15:09

According to payments networks Visa and MasterCard, consumers are getting much more comfortable with biometric payments. Research from the fourth annual MasterCard Mobile Payments Study finds cardholders increasingly are asking for... read more

26 Feb 16 @ 13:13

Gemalto released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, revealing that 1,673 data breaches led to 707 million data records being compromised worldwide during 2015. The Breach Level Index... read more

23 Feb 16 @ 12:12

MasterCard announced it will bring facial recognition payment services, “selfie pay” to the UK as part of a range of new services designed to improve identity verification for mobile phone... read more

10 Feb 16 @ 09:30

In late 2014, Kaspersky Lab researchers made a worrying prediction: financially-motivated cybercrime...

09 Feb 16 @ 12:59

Innocuous devices, the Internet of Things search engine Shodan recently found to be vulnerable to cyber attacks, include a teddy bear able to remotely send voice messages

03 Feb 16 @ 15:55

US EMV activity rising steadily, but some industry observers bemoan the slow EMV adoption in the United States since 2015.

02 Feb 16 @ 15:39

The 2016 Identity Fraud Study released by Javelin Strategy & Research, revealed that the number of identity fraud victims increased by 3% (13.1 million consumers) in the US last year, but that... read more

29 Jan 16 @ 11:17

The payments industry is no stranger to the increasing reach of regulation. With the EU Regulation on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions coming into force earlier this year, together with near-term... read more

29 Jan 16 @ 10:53

Fraud losses are at record levels worldwide. Card fraud worldwide grew 19 percent last year compared to card sales which grew only 15%, according to figures released by the Nilson... read more