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Atlanta-based bitcoin payment processor BitPay has suffered a phishing attack costing the company $1.8 million.

Small to medium sized businesses are often cast as unprepared for the card network's October deadline for EMV-chip card migration. But how bad can it really be?

EMV is being touted as the dawn of a new era in credit card fraud prevention. However, there are doubts it will make a significant difference.

Atlanta-based bitcoin payment processor BitPay has suffered a phishing attack costing the company $1.8 million.

Visa's ATM biometric trial in South Africa has the potential to spread a security technology that has encountered resistance in other parts of the world, including the U.S.

Royal Bank of Canada's marching ahead on two innovations designed to help it blanket the country's mature point of sale and connected devices.

Fintech firm Tanium says it has found a unique method for securing the tens of thousands of vulnerable points in the computer networks of banks and other companies.

Banks are starting to lay traps for cybercriminals that have broken through their defenses.

Any EMV detractors saying the two-decade-old security against counterfeit cards has long passed its time are likely not aware of what the future has in store for the chip-based technology.

Blockchain technology associated with Bitcoin has caught the eye of bankers, but now comes the hard part: figuring out where it can be used — international payments, treasury services or elsewhere — without wasting a lot of time and money in experimentation.