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The domain tools report – the distribution of malicious domains

08 May 17 @ 12:11

A new report, which profles malicious domains by describing patterns in their registration details: top level domain (TLD), free email provider, Whois privacy provider, and hosting location has some startling insights. In... read more

Hackers exploit SS7 security flaws to access German bank accounts

05 May 17 @ 13:57

Despite security experts warnings for years about security flaws around the SS7 (Signalling System 7), a protocol used by mobile networks to communicate with each other- hackers have finally accessed a back door and... read more

Stolen credit card testing increases 200% in 2017 exacerbating e-commerce fraud

04 May 17 @ 16:02

With RBTE just around the corner, released data from Radial’s  e-commerce fraud technology lab adds another alarming statistic for retailers to contend with when delivering a seamless customer experience. To date... read more

Cyber security: The targeted attack landscape in 2016

03 May 17 @ 11:48

A new cyber security report revealed new levels of ambition in 2016, a year marked by extraordinary attacks, including multi-million dollar virtual bank heists, overt attempts to disrupt the US electoral... read more

Unencrypted payment card data – your oganization’s risk of a data breach Infograph

28 Apr 17 @ 15:56

Since 2010, SecurityMetrics PANscan discovered over 1.5 billion unencrypted primary account numbers (PAN) on business networks. Storage of unencrypted payment card data increases your organization’s risk and liability in the... read more

The future of identity and authentication – a bank perspective

27 Apr 17 @ 09:44

Connectivity is changing the world and the way we interact with one another. Last year, figures showed that the global population owned around 6 billion connected devices, approaching one for... read more

Entrust Datacard partner to improve Payment Data Security worldwide

26 Apr 17 @ 11:53

Entrust Datacard announced that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a new Participating Organization to work on payment data security worldwide. Entrust Datacard will work with the Council to... read more

Staying one step ahead in the ATM security challenge

21 Apr 17 @ 13:45

This year marks 50 years since the introduction of the first ATM, which was put into use by Barclays in its Enfield branch in north London on 27th June 1967.... read more

InterContinental confirms malware based payment card breach at 1200 hotels

19 Apr 17 @ 15:52

In December 2016, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that fraud teams at a number of banks were seeing a pattern suggesting a widespread, malware based, payment card breach across some 5,000 hotels worldwide owned... read more

The EBA is wrong about screen scraping — and it’s going to hurt European FinTech!

24 Mar 17 @ 10:33

On 23 February, the European Banking Authority (EBA) announced its intention to outlaw screen scraping in one of their Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) complementing the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2),... read more

How can API standardisation be achieved in the context of PSD2?

15 Mar 17 @ 11:05

In less than a year the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) will be implemented in European Union (EU) Member States, and the acronym ‘API’ is on the minds of Payment... read more

Revealed: Why UK banks crash all the time

10 Mar 17 @ 09:25

CAST, a software risk prevention and analysis outfit, has revealed the findings of its latest CRASH report, the world’s largest real-life study of software quality in enterprise applications. The report exposes that... read more

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Wero expands merchant payments in France with Orange

06 Sep 26 @ 19:31

Wero is moving further beyond its origins as a peer-to-peer payment service, with Orange becoming the first merchant in France to offer subscription bill paymen... more

ECB and Brazil explore cross-border link between TIPS and Pix

06 Sep 26 @ 19:32

The European Central Bank and Banco Central do Brasil are examining whether Europe’s TIPS instant-payment infrastructure could be connected with Brazil’s hu... more

US Bank tests its own Stablecoin for Cross-Border Payments

10 Sep 26 @ 15:44

US Bank has completed a live cross-border transaction using its own dollar-backed stablecoin, becoming one of the latest major lenders to test whether blockchai... more