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Business, Customers Not On Same Page With Securing Personal Data
November 07, 2017

Centrify, an identity and assessment management (IAM) solution company, revealed on Monday (Nov. 6) the results of a survey that show businesses are not inspiring consumer confidence when it comes to protecting personal information in the event of a cyberattack. Get the Full Story Complete...

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Securing Consumer Data Beyond The SSN
November 06, 2017

How do you build a real, resilient and robust standard of best practices in data security? And how do you do it when just about every piece of traditional identification has been compromised? In a wide ranging interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Socure CEO Sunil...

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Equifax Clears Four Execs Who Sold Shares Post-Breach
November 03, 2017

Equifax announced that it has cleared four of its executives who sold shares before the company disclosed a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 145 million consumers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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What We Can Learn From The KRACK WiFi Loophole
November 02, 2017

Only you can prevent forest fires. And, as the KRACK WiFi vulnerability perhaps demonstrated, only you can prevent hackers from worming their way into your networks and devices, as even established security measures that are presumed to be stable may not be as secure as...

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Hilton Settles Data Breach Suit for $700,000
November 01, 2017

The attorney general of New York announced a settlement with Hilton over the exposure of hundreds of thousands of credit card details, CNBC reported. The hospitality chain has agreed to pay a $700,000 settlement. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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The Perfect Secure Payments Storm
November 01, 2017

The updated 3D Secure 2.0 protocol and the European Union’s (EU) second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) have delivered a one-two punch for issuers and merchants in order to comply with these new regulatory requirements and network authentication processes. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

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Fraudsters And The Retail Identity Crisis
November 01, 2017

Mastercard came out ahead of Wall Street’s forecasts when its Q3 earnings report hit the wires before the markets opened yesterday – notching a beat on both earnings and revenue, with significant growth in transaction volume and global market share. Markets rewarded the good news with a...

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The FTC On Identity Fraud’s Biggest Threat
October 30, 2017

In one of the more unfortunate examples of practice making perfect, fraudsters are getting better at what they do. According to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Global Fraud Index – after a short lull post-EMV in the U.S., when fraud briefly went down – they...

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McAfee Won’t Let Foreign Governments Review Their Code
October 27, 2017

McAfee, the security software company, is no longer allowing foreign governments to look over the source code of its products, stopping a practice that security experts have cautioned could enable nations to conduct cyberattacks. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...