Fraud & Security

01 Mar 16 @ 12:29

TSYS announced an agreement with Ethoca, a provider of collaboration-based technology that enables card issuers and e-commerce merchants to stop card-not-present fraud, recover lost revenue and eliminate chargebacks. Launched through... 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

08 Feb 16 @ 12:30

Stay one step ahead with deep industry information and a wealth of statistics from central banks, interbank companies and associations and individual banks. The Payment Cards Statistical Yearbooks give a market... read more

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 @ 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

29 Jan 16 @ 10:38

The recent publication of cybercrime statistics by the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), the German Federal Criminal Office, raises almost as many questions as it answers. As with any official cybercrime statistics, perhaps... read more

26 Jan 16 @ 13:47

With acceptance of mobile and other new forms of payments expected to double in the next two years, a new global study shows a critical need for organisations to improve... read more

26 Jan 16 @ 12:08

Rambus has announced it has acquired Smart Card Software Ltd which includes Bell Identification (Bell ID) and Ecebs Ltd (Ecebs) through the purchase of all outstanding shares of Smart Card Software,... read more