Security News

FTC amends telemarketing rule to ban payment methods used by scammers (Help Net Security)
2015-11-19 12:30

The Federal Trade Commission has approved final amendments to its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), including a change that will help protect consumers from fraud by prohibiting four discrete types of p...

Mass adoption of mobile payment services derailed by security, privacy concerns (Help Net Security)
2015-11-19 08:00

Evaluating the mobile payment preferences of 1,217 consumers from the U.S., a new Research Now survey revealed that 17 percent of respondents who did not make holiday purchases with their mobile phone...

W3C to make payments easier and more secure (Help Net Security)
2015-10-27 07:00

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) launched the Web Payments Working Group to help streamline the online "check-out" process and make payments easier and more secure on the Web. The proposed stand...