Technology

With the breach threat showing no signs of slowing, security companies are rapidly broadening their systems to simultaneously fight identity fraud stemming from clients' consumers and employees.

Bluefin Payment Systems is making point-to-point encryption available to large merchants that use Heartland Payment Systems as a processor, a key move as U.S businesses grapple with the migration to chip cards.

Kaspersky Lab has unveiled a cyber-heist in which hackers have already stolen $1 billion from banks across the world. Here's what banks should know about how the hackers did it — and what institutions can do to protect themselves.

Mobile payment company iZettle is countering the idea that EMV compliance increases merchant expense by offering a free version of its mobile chip-and-PIN card reader.

It would have to be a payments network's worst nightmare — shutting down because of technical problems during its merchants' busy Valentine's Day weekend.

A joint venture formed by Norway's three dominant mobile phone carriers is testing a new, rebranded version of its mobile wallet, designed to lower the barriers merchants and consumers face when first using a mobile phone for payments.

The theft of 80 million healthcare records will cost Anthem Blue Cross more than $100-million, and payment companies are also under threat since the incident may result in a spike in false card accounts.

MasterCard is testing whether the time is finally right for biometric authentication to take over as the standard of customer-facing security.

Bankers, technology CEOs and President Obama are throwing everything they have at countering the growing threat of cyber attacks, putting their faith in biometrics, tokenization and data sharing. But it's far from clear that it will be enough.

Apple isn't the only device maker with its own mobile wallet. Though Samsung hasn't launched anything like Apple Pay, every year Samsung has added new technology to its smartphones and wearables to piece together the elements of a true mobile wallet.