A U.S. company holding money in euros is at constant risk of losing money: If the FX rate between the euros and the greenback falls, so do their profits. Political and economic factors, such as the Brexit vote or a lapsed loan between banks in...
Very Good Security (VGS), a startup working to protect data, told TechCrunch on Tuesday (August 28) that it raised $8.5 million in a venture round of fundraising. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
There are 100 million threat vectors floating around the digital sphere as of today, and the best firewalls in the world can only absorb about 200,000 threats at a time, according to CEO Chris Fedde of Bandura Systems, which means threats are getting through. Get the Full Story...
The Bank of Spain’s website has been temporarily disrupted since Sunday (Aug. 26) due to a cyberattack. According to Reuters, the bank said that the attack has not effected the bank’s services or its communications with the European Central Bank or other institutions. It added...
Firewalls, from the biggest to the smallest, are under assault all day, every day from the staggering number of cybersecurity threats floating around the digital sphere — a fact that probably doesn’t come as much of a shock to most people at this point. Get the...
To help parents protect against child identity theft, Experian is rolling out a Child ID scan. The service comes as 1 million children had their identities stolen last year, and Experian has designated Saturday (Sept. 1) as Child Identity Theft Awareness Day, the company said...
Facial recognition technology helped U.S. border agents catch a traveler posing as a French citizen — and did so on the third day that authorities were using the biometric authentication system, officials said this week. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
If the saying is that there is nothing new under the sun, only new ways to say it, then let’s extend the sentiment to payments. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
Let’s give it up for the lowly fast food restaurant and its QSR cousins. Often confined to the bottom levels of culture — demeaned, mocked and stereotyped — they are now, as an industry, not only coming into their own as digital operations, but in some...