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Responding to the fast pace of payments technology and its impact on privacy and data security, Mastercard plans to recruit a range of companies, educational institutions and agencies to produce a set of best practices.
October 24 -
More states are adopting mobile driver’s licenses, sparking hope of creating a shareable consumer-driven digital ID to power e-commerce and data sharing among banks, fintechs and merchants.
October 1 -
Visa is leaning more heavily on its Issuers’ Clearinghouse Service to help banks combat the rise of synthetic fraud, which it attributes in part to a security measure adopted by the Social Security Administration years ago.
September 27 -
The race against high-tech fraudsters has always motivated the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, but for too long the council's process for establishing new standards wasn't looking ahead to the next threat.
September 24 -
The most popular payment method in Hong Kong is no longer considered safe by many protesters.
August 23 -
Bluefin cut its teeth developing point-to-point encryption to protect sensitive payment information from being intercepted by thieves during the transaction process, and now it’s adding tokenization protection for the consumer data merchants keep.
August 21 -
As the movement to adopt PCI-validated point-to-point encryption as a way to deter POS malware attacks spreads, Bluefin has patented a new process to identify compromised payment devices.
August 15 -
Apple's new credit card isn't just another virtual card in its virtual wallet. It borrows a lot of features from the most successful brands in payments and technology.
August 8 -
The ongoing availability of stolen account information used to perpetrate vishing and phishing was exacerbated by the Capital One data breach disclosed this week, affecting 100 million accounts, and is likely to increase fraud threats.
July 30 -
Consumers are looking forward to $125 settlement checks from Equifax Inc. stemming from a data breach two years ago. Hackers, however, are using the claims as another opportunity to steal their personal information.
July 29