Security News

Is Payments Industry Ready for New Encryption Protocols?
2018-05-02 13:02

PCI-DSS Requirement Looms on June 30New PCI requirements that go into effect June 30 are pushing payment card acquirers, processors, gateways and service providers worldwide to implement more...

Anomali partners with Visa to offer global payment breach intelligence
2018-04-18 16:12

Threat management and collaboration solutions provider Anomali announced a partnership with Visa to provide cyber security teams with intelligence on indicators of compromise (IoCs) drawn from...

Crooks are swapping out chips on payment cards, says US Secret Service
2018-04-08 21:27

The crooks don't steal your whole card, which you'd probably notice, but just the chip from it...

The Future of Secure Payments
2018-04-06 09:05

Jim Cunha of the Boston Fed on Future-Proofing Against FraudThe Secure Payments Task Force was established by the Federal Reserve Bank in 2015 in part to determine areas of focus and priorities...

Best Buy Hit by [24]7.ai Payment Card Breach
2018-04-06 05:43

After Delta Air Lines and Sears Holdings, Best Buy has also come forward to warn customers that their payment card information may have been compromised as a result of a breach suffered by online...

Hackers steal payment card data of 5 million Saks, Lord & Taylor customers
2018-04-03 13:41

Hackers have apparently managed to compromise the cash register systems at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in the US and Canada, and have stolen payment card data of some five million...

Saks, Lord & Taylor Suffer Payment Card Data Breach
2018-04-02 11:03

5 Million Payment Cards Apparently Stolen by the Carbanak Gang, aka JokerStashDepartment store chains Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off Fifth and Lord & Taylor have suffered a data breach that...

Ransomware Payments: Where Have All the Bitcoins Gone?
2018-03-28 15:18

Researchers Track Cryptocurrency Ransoms Paid by Cerber, Locky and Other VictimsRansomware isn't an easy area to study. But a team of researchers has calculated the minimum paid by all ransomware...

Ransomware Payments: Where Do the Bitcoins Go?
2018-03-28 10:48

Researchers Track the Flow of Ransoms Paid by Cerber, Locky and Other VictimsRansomware isn't an easy area to study. But a team of researchers has calculated the minimum paid by all ransomware...

880,000 payment cards, user info hit in Orbitz data breach
2018-03-21 17:18

Expedia subsidiary Orbitz has revealed that a legacy Orbitz travel booking platform had been compromised and personal user information and payment card data might have been accessed by...