Data security

Security vendor Trustwave has been named in another lawsuit filed against Target for damages related to the retailer's 2013 data breach.

Bitcoin startups are much more outspoken about security than traditional payments companies are, and the new Ciphrex wallet is no exception, claiming to be the first to use multi-signature transaction management.

Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., unveiled legislation on April 2 to increase fraud protections for debit card customers.

Target Corp. is backing the moving of class actions related to the retailer's massive data breach to the company's home state of Minnesota.

December’s breaches made the most headlines, but the bad news for retailers seems to keep coming every few days, alternating with the latest weather reports to make up a good chunk of every evening newscast.

Payments technology provider Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) and its NYCE debit network have secured a licensing agreement with Visa to use the card brand's EMV debit application identifier (common AID) technology.

Green Bank has dropped a lawsuit against Target and security vendor Trustwave that stemmed from the retailer's 2013 data breach.

One of the two banks suing retailer Target and security vendor Trustwave in connection with the retailer's high-profile data breach has backed off.

2Checkout has developed a hosted online and mobile payment processing system that can plug into a merchant's existing e-commerce site.

Even the biggest success stories in mobile payments have skeletons in their closets. But each company learned from its mistakes and was quick to adapt.

Many times, it seems, the best way for a company to learn whether it was compliant with the Payment Card Industry data security standard is to experience a data breach.

EMV-chip technology has driven down fraud on Canada's Interac debit network, but that fraud isn't moving online. It's fleeing the country.

Lawmakers keep trying to move legislation aimed at strengthening data security even if they are still not finished upbraiding retailers for recent breaches.

The security vendor Trustwave has been accused of failing to identify security gaps at Target, according to a lawsuit filed by banks for damages suffered from the holiday season data breach.

?Target Corp., scheduled to testify tomorrow about a data breach affecting millions of customers, plans to tell lawmakers it had clues about the attack weeks before responding and is exploring why it took so long to react.

Target Corp.'s massive holiday-season data breach touched card issuers of all sizes, including banks as small as StonehamBank, which leveraged technology it refers to as a "digital" employee to manage and replace exposed cards.

Visa is making its common application identifier available for Discover's Pulse debit network, marking the latest in a string of agreements that pave the way for EMV debit card acceptance in the U.S.

Identity protection company miiCard has partnered with international payment processor eMerchantPay to offer secure online payment processing to merchants.

QR codes, which are commonly used in mobile wallets to link to a consumer's payment account, can just as easily link to phishing sites, malware and other nasty surprises.

Merchants who in recent years viewed mobile payments as experimental now say they consider the technology vital in e-commerce, even though many remain concerned about fraud.