Data breaches

Restaurants and other hospitality businesses have suffered a series of breaches. E-wallets can provide extra security and marketing heft at the same time.

As restaurant security issues mount, it's important to have a set of sophistiated tools that can mitigate and respond to fraud, writes John Christly, global CIOS of Netsurion.

There are several steps necessary to contain, assess and report an incident that should precede further action.

EMV is strictly an anti-counterfeiting measure that leaves several elements of the payment process untouched, and fraudsters are exploiting these gaps.

Readers weigh in on a notable OCC personnel change, the Scottrade breach, the ability of corporate owners to still be anonymous and more.

The speed of the crooks and the threat to retailers and customer data is more than enough reason to get aggressive with new identity protections.

Private information about consumer and business accounts was exposed. The bank immediately cited vendor error.

Adoption is increasing, but most consumers would stop using the technology if they suffered a security incident

Passwords are often restrictive, undynanmic and draw attention from fraudsters. And there's also the risk of repeated cybercrime linked to old authentication.

As connected devices expand in use and add payment capabilities, retailers and technology companies will need to move fast to stay safe and ahead of the curve.

A lot of time can pass between a breach and when a company discovers the incident, creating an opportunity to damage payment systems.

Firms including Betterment, Coinbase and TransferWise have told customers that despite a bug affecting the content delivery network Cloudflare, their data is safe.

Hotels and other hospitality businesses need to adopt new security technology methods such as biometrics to stay ahead of the crooks.

Data breaches at financial institutions dropped by 26% in 2016, but breaches as a whole were up significantly.

The breaches at large retailers and other companies are continuing, making it time to fully embrace a new authentication method.

Payment companies and other financial institutions were victimized less than health care, educational institutions and government agencies.

Artificial intelligence is moving from science fiction to practical reality fast, and it's in banks' best interest to gear up now for the changes ahead. Here are some strategies to consider.

For years, there's been a lot of talk about personal information as an unalloyed asset. But by now it should be clear that the more information a company has about its customers, the bigger a target it is for hackers.

The time banks have to investigate red-flagged credit payments has shrunk from several days to a few hours and fraudsters have already taken notice.

Data breaches have been proliferating over the past couple of years, but there's new technology out of the 'bot' and analytics worlds that can help.