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Like any well-run business, the Dridex cybercrime gang is growing and diversifying. It's stepping up its efforts to break into banks, through increased phishing attacks and ransomware.

As government and private sectors build up their defenses against mounting cyberattacks, a sharper focus on the "risk in the seams" of payments and data networks is needed, experts say.

American Express has filed a notice with the attorney general in California informing some of its cardholders that their account information may have been compromised.

American Express has filed a notice with the Attorney General in California, informing some of its cardholders that their account information may have been compromised.

Merchants that postponed their EMV migration are feeling the sting of losses connected to the EMV liability shift. They are now shoring up their fraud defenses and—in some cases—speeding up their EMV-migration plans.

Biometric authentication has been "replacing" passwords for a long time, but for the most part accounts still rely more on remembered credentials than physical identifiers.

Data security vendor and researcher Trustwave has appointed company veteran Michael Petitti as senior vice president of global alliances.

The fight over the security protections on the San Bernardino, Calif., iPhone is about more than a single device or Apple's product line.

The Central Bank of Bangladesh is threatening to sue the New York Fed over money wired out of its account. The Fed says it did nothing wrong, the transfer was authenticated and executed by Swift.

As the Central Bank of Bangladesh threatens to sue the Federal Reserve Bank of New York over at least $80 million stolen from its account there, the Fed says its systems were not compromised.