Credit card providers Visa and MasterCard have confirmed they will roll out their tokenisation technology in Australia at some point in 2015 while Visa said the service will launch in Europe by mid-April.
U.S. businesses and government agencies need to work more closely together to combat the growing threat of cyberattacks, President Barack Obama said Friday.
Grant Gross | 14 Feb | Read more
Senior U.S. government officials came to Silicon Valley on Friday to deliver a direct appeal to executives from major companies and the cybersecurity industry: work with us so the nation will be better protected from cyberattacks.
Martyn Williams | 14 Feb | Read more
U.S. lawmakers should put strict privacy controls into planned legislation to encourage companies to share cyberthreat information with government agencies and each other, some advocates said.
Grant Gross | 29 Jan | Read more
A global police crackdown co-ordinated by Interpol has seen the arrest of 118 people accused of using stolen or fake debit and credit cards to buy airplane tickets.
John E Dunn | 03 Dec | Read more
Small businesses are proving to be a locus for cybersecurity attacks, with security experts advising that better communication is necessary to keep SMBs protected and some warning that the relatively small IT organisations of SMBs make them particularly vulnerable to the proliferation of 'shadow IT'.
David Braue | 10 Nov | Read more
In an effort to make to make Internet and mobile transactions more secure, American Express has launched a new service that aims to replace payment card numbers with unique tokens.
Lucian Constantin | 04 Nov | Read more
On Friday, at the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, President Obama signed an Executive Order that will add chip-and-PIN protections (EMV) to federal credit cards starting in January. The President encouraged the financial and retail sectors to follow suit.
Steve Ragan | 20 Oct | Read more
Almost every new product or service announced by Apple on 9 September at the Flint Center had been leaked at some point. Rumours that Apple was planning to move into the payments business proved correct when Tim Cook's team brought forth Apple Pay.
Anthony Caruana | 11 Sep | Read more
In a letter to the California Attorney General's Office (OAG), American Express says that 76,608 people in the state will get a breach notification letter after some of their data was published by Anonymous Ukraine earlier this year.
Steve Ragan | 02 Jun | Read more
Five men have been arrested by British police after allegedly going on an extravagant £500,000 ($775,000) spending spree using a compromised American Express Black card.
John E Dunn | 10 May | Read more
Annenberg Lab reports Internet advertising networks placing government and corporate ads on dens of IP iniquity
John P. Mello Jr. | 29 Mar | Read more
If the Internet is the new Wild West, then hackers are the wanted outlaws of our time. And like the gun-slinging bad boys before them, all it takes is one wrong move to land them in jail.
JR Raphael | 24 Oct | Read more
Security experts today warned users to be on the watch for targeted email attacks after a breach at a major marketing firm that may have put millions of addresses in the hands of hackers and scammers.
Gregg Keizer | 05 Apr | Read more