Security News

Free decryption tool could save victims millions in ransomware payments
2019-02-20 06:00

A new decryption tool has been released for free on the No More Ransom depository for the latest strand of GandCrab. This tool was developed by the Romanian Police in close collaboration with the...

Huddle House Suffers Payment Card Breach
2019-02-05 09:41

Huddle House, an Atlanta-based restaurant chain with over 300 locations across the United States, informed customers recently that their payment card information may have been compromised as a...

The Tricky Balance in Declining or Accepting Online Payments
2019-01-31 15:16

False positives are one of the biggest problems for security controls. In malware detection they interrupt work and divert incident response away from real issues. But in ecommerce and financial...

PCI SSC Releases New Security Standards for Payment Software
2019-01-18 16:38

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) this week announced new security standards for the design, development and maintenance of payment software. read more

New requirements for the secure design and development of modern payment software
2019-01-18 06:00

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published new requirements for the secure design and development of modern payment software. The PCI Secure Software Standard and the PCI Secure...

Vesta launches payment and fraud prevention solutions for e-Commerce
2019-01-15 01:30

Vesta has launched three payment solutions – Guaranteed Payments, Guaranteed Gateway and Guaranteed Acquiring – that enable e-commerce companies to grow their business by focusing on revenue...

A Fraud-Fighting Strategy for P2P Payments
2019-01-11 21:33

Customer lifecyle data management can play an important role in cracking down on fraud tied to the growth in real-time P2P payments, says David Barnhardt of the security firm GIACT.

Neiman Marcus Settles Lawsuit Over Payment Card Breach
2019-01-10 10:48

Agreement With 43 States Requires Retailer to Use Encryption, TokenizationForty-three states have reached a settlement with Neiman Marcus over its 2013 data breach, one of several breaches from...

The Ongoing Battle to Secure Card Payments
2019-01-02 18:48

Although chip cards are now commonplace in the U.S., there is still much work to be done securing card transactions online and offline. Randy Vanderhoof of the U.S. Payments Forum discusses 2019...