Investment

The leak of documents from the surveillance software and "ethical hacking" firm Hacking Team revealed that some foreign banks were clients. Had any U.S. banks been on the list, the last two weeks would have been … interesting.

Treasury Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin told a group of bankers that law enforcement and regulators need to declassify more information so banks can protect themselves.

Biometrics are a catalyst to streamline authentication, though the technology contains a vulnerability that Payfone thinks it can solve with the SIM cards that match consumers to a computing device such as a smartphone.

Any merchants or businesses handling payment and other sensitive data while using a Windows Server 2003 network will need to take precautions when Microsoft ends it support for that platform on July 14.

Hershey Entertainment and Resorts' payment systems were infiltrated earlier this year, potentially exposing cardholder data, the entertainment and resort company disclosed July 10.

Hershey Entertainment and Resorts' payment systems were infiltrated earlier this year, potentially exposing cardholder data, the entertainment and resort company disclosed July 10.

In today’s fast-paced, digital age, when smartphones are “outdated” six months after they’re released, nothing stays the same for long, and that includes payments fraud.

Business went on as usual at commercial banks as the New York Stock Exchange and other large businesses suffered outages. But the confluence of events served as an unnerving reminder of the cyber risks facing the industry.

As technological problems forced the New York Stock Exchange to grind to a halt Wednesday, financial services insiders and observers weighed in on the vulnerabilities of increasingly electronic financial systems.

With the looming liability shift in the United States, EMV is on every payment card issuer’s mind, though with the challenge comes opportunities, such as bolstering customer relationships.