-
Top executives from Bank of America, U.S. Bancorp, American Express, MasterCard, Microsoft and Apple are expected to participate as part of a White House summit on cybersecurity issues in California on Friday.
February 11 -
The central bank is floating the concept of using the Internet to facilitate the direct clearing of transactions between financial institutions, which would likely diminish its own role in the U.S. payment system.
February 11 -
Encryption has become a political hot potato for the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council as it compiles a list of validated encryption vendors and services and leaves off some companies that say they deserve to be recognized as secure.
February 11 -
This week's White House Summit on cyber security at Stanford University comes at a pivotal time for payment and security professionals, which have an opportunity to cooperate to fight Internet crime.
February 11
PCI Security Standards Council -
The creation of a new cybersecurity agency is the latest move by the Obama administration to combat the increasing threat of cyberattacks.
February 10 -
Hackers in several financial services industry data breaches targeted customer-contact information that is often thought of as less sensitive. But crooks can use that data and other bits of stolen info to do great harm.
February 10 -
U.S. gas stations can wait until October 2017 to begin accepting EMV-chip cards or face the consequence of an increase in fraud liability, but there's already concern that the work at gas pumps could stall.
February 9 -
The New Jersey Assembly is weighing whether to pursue legislation that would make the state a haven for digital currency businesses.
February 4 -
Stephen Platt, regulatory investigations consultant and author of "Criminal Capital: How the Finance Industry Facilitates Crime," explains his misgivings about the idea of a shared know-your-customer registry for the industry.
February 4
-
Deployments of biometrics are usually fairly challenging, but Apple has demonstrated through its Touch ID fingerprint system that it can scale a consumer biometric technology quickly. London-based ValidSoft predicts it can do the same for voice biometrics by using the microphone built into most consumer gadgets.
February 4
