Collaborate Disseminate
We got a bit of a surprise at the end of CES: some hands-on time with Samsung’s latest rugged phone for the enterprise, the Galaxy XCover Pro. The XCover Pro, which is officially launching today, is a mid-range $499 phone for first-line workers like flight attendants, construction workers or nurses. It is meant to be […] Continue reading Smasung launches the rugged, enterprise-ready Galaxy XCover Pro
Paying at the pump has landed in the sights of the notorious PoS-skimming group. Continue reading FIN8 Targets Card Data at Fuel Pumps
The web skimmer has been spotted on at least 17 popular eCommerce websites, a new Visa alert warns. Continue reading Pipka Card Skimmer Removes Itself After Infecting eCommerce Sites
Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people. Continue reading Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach
American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa announced the arrival of faster, more secure online checkout based on the new EMV Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) industry standard, establishing a simplified way for card payments to be made across web and … Continue reading American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa launch faster and more secure online checkout
Gone: Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Mercado Pago. Of six payments firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains. Continue reading Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses all but one payment company
Visa announced a suite of innovative security capabilities to help prevent and disrupt payment fraud, breaking new ground in cybersecurity and fraud prevention. The new payment security services and capabilities help protect the integrity of the paymen… Continue reading New Visa payment security services help defend against evolving threats
Visa announced that Paul D. Fabara will join Visa as Chief Risk Officer, effective Sept. 3. Mr. Fabara takes over from Ellen Richey, Visa’s former Vice Chairman and Chief Risk Officer who recently retired after more than 11 years with the company. Mr. … Continue reading Paul D. Fabara joins Visa as Chief Risk Officer
Flaws that allow attackers to bypass the payment limits on Visa contactless cards have been discovered by researchers Leigh-Anne Galloway and Tim Yunusov at Positive Technologies. The attack was tested with five major UK banks, successfully bypassing t… Continue reading Flaws allow attackers to bypass payment limits on Visa contactless cards
Visa and Andreessen Horowitz are betting even bigger on cryptocurrency, funding a big round for fellow Facebook Libra Association member Anchorage’s omnimetric blockchain security system. Instead of using passwords that can be stolen, Anchorage requires cryptocurrency withdrawals to be approved by a client’s other employees. Then the company uses both human and AI review of […] Continue reading Visa funds $40M for no-password crypto vault Anchorage