Data security

As the digital age reduces the wear on physical cards, how is it that some consumers are requesting new cards more frequently?

Large banks like Wells Fargo have started using "cyber ranges" and "red teams" to respond to real cyberattacks on virtual versions of their real systems.

When breaches occur it is the standard practice for the notification to come directly from the company affected. The difference with Discover's service is that, because it's an opt-in program, its users may already be bracing themselves for bad news.

UniCredit, Italy's No. 1 bank, said hackers took biographical and loan data from 400,000 client accounts in one of the biggest breaches of European banking security this year.

The bank is drawing renewed scrutiny after a lawyer’s unauthorized release of sensitive client details for tens of thousands of accounts belonging to wealthy customers of its brokerage unit.

Cyberattacks are on the rise, but that doesn't mean becoming a victim is inevitable. The right preventative measures and best practices can help secure digital assets and customer data, writes Robert Fifield, co-founder of Payably.

Because of the opaque nature of internet retailing and widely publicized data breaches, security concerns remain a pervasive gating factor to digital commerce. Key to countering this is providing consumers with the tools to monitor and control where their payment credentials are stored online.

Credit card or personal data transactions getting processed through IBM equipment will soon benefit from "one-click" data encryption in a powerful new mainframe.

The system can run more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day and can automatically keep applications, cloud services and databases hashed.

Some merchants, issuers and processors are concerned that the card brands will tout their "ownership" of payment card prefixes as a basis for requesting that mobile transactions on their cards be routed to their networks and screened through tokenization services they provide.

Guests include Carl Ryden of PrecisionLender, Felipe Echandi Lacayo of PanaFintech, Sam Shawki of Magic Cube.

Military and intelligence agencies around the world have grappled with data breach challenges for years, and have relied on Secure KM (Keyboard/Mouse) switches to manage the risk.

More e-commerce and multi-channel merchants are accepting payments from mobile devices, even though they haven't addressed all of the security gaps inherent to the technology.

U.S. banks and credit unions face a tricky calculus in deciding whether to adopt expensive technology aimed at reducing online fraud.

Banks are getting hundreds of thousands of security alerts a day — way too many for humans to handle.

U.S. banks face a tricky calculus in deciding whether to adopt expensive technology aimed at reducing online fraud.

Vinny Lingham, founder and CEO of Civic, discusses the froth in cryptocurrency markets, the mania for "initial coin offerings," the right way to do token sales, the future of digital identity and the banking system's security failings.

North America remains a favorite target for hackers, with incidents at the point of sale rising dramatically in 2016 and payment card data again proving to be the most at risk, according to new research from Trustwave.

Consumer frustration with passwords is nearing a peak, with average users currently registered via password to more than 90 online accounts, and one in four consumers forgetting at least one password daily, according to a new study from Mastercard.

Federal law established oversight of banks’ security measures, but the lack of similar requirements for retailers creates a blind spot in defending against hacks.