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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Card-skimming devices hidden on gas station card readers or carefully integrated into ATMs used to be especially troubling for merchants and consumers, but retailers and financial institutions (FIs) have stepped up their measures to protect physical card readers in recent years. Safeguarding Card Details.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

To do that, and to clear the next hurdle, Whisler said many financial institutions (FIs) still need to “modernize internally to be a 24/7 operation shop.”. As far as fees are concerned, she explained that existing competition from other providers, card networks and same-day ACH will likely keep fees in line. “To RTP Outlook.

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APRIL 1, 2020

billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018, solidifying debit as a staple payment type. They insert or swipe their debit cards at stores’ point-of-sale (POS) devices — or key in details online — and maybe enter PINs, but the behind-the-scenes processes through which transactions are routed are kept invisible. shoppers made 72.7

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Virtual credit cards are one of the more flexible electronic payment methods available, and the world continues its steady march toward greater digital payment use. Virtual cards can improve accounts payable (AP) processes, benefiting both buyers and suppliers by streamlining day-to-day payments, and providing greater control over cash flows.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

8) that his office, as well as 42 other state attorney generals, have settled with Neiman Marcus over a 2013 breach of customer payment card data at 77 of the retailer’s stores. The states’ investigations determined that around 370,000 payment cards were breached, including 8,323 associated with consumers in the state of Maryland.

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MAY 13, 2019

Commonplace operations such as food trucks and nonprofits are using these products, as are furniture restoration merchants and even buskers. These small entities are seeking to win trust despite not being established brands, but customers will only feel safe if they’re confident that their payment information will remain secure. .

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mastercard and pan-European FinTech myPOS are teaming up to promote card payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across Europe, Mastercard announced on Thursday (Feb. The strategic partnership aims to inform more SMBs about the new tools for card acceptance that can fit their needs and budget.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Like the 2014 list , one of the challenges identified by the OIG is the need to ensure that the CFPB has an effective information security program. The OIG identified four high-priority security risk areas for CFPB improvement: Continuous monitoring to assess security controls and system configurations.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Once reserved for only the largest and most sophisticated firms, automated enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting platforms are now accessible for even the smallest of businesses, and data from those systems is the new currency of operational efficiency. Leavitt said in a recent interview with Karen Webster.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Providing robust services via mobile channels is especially important now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused businesses to operate remotely and consumers to stay at home as much as possible. The need to secure open banking has only grown as financial criminals have stepped up to exploit disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, he added.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Des Moines, Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee said credit card information for an undisclosed number of customers were exposed in a data breach, according to reports. “Hy-Vee Hy-Vee takes the security of payment card data very seriously,” the company said in a statement on its website. “We

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JANUARY 23, 2020

The European Union’s long-anticipated 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (5AMLD), which modernizes security rules to reflect the needs and threats facing today’s economy, took effect in mid-January, and its impacts are already being felt across the payments space. Fiat-focused digital wallets must also boost their security.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Adhering to Payments Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) is an unavoidable requirement for any and all eTailers that accept card payments, but a surprising number of firms are not up to speed on these standards. The need for digital security has never been more paramount than during the COVID-19 crisis.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

T-Mobile has told some customers of a “security incident” in which a malicious party “may have impacted some of your T-Mobile account information.”. T-Mobile began informing customers of the incident on Dec. 29, according to the tech website bleepingcomputer.com , which was among the first news outlets to report the breech.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

A new Bluetooth security flaw was discovered that could leave users’ data unprotected and open to hackers, The Verge reported on Friday (Aug. The weakness was discovered by researchers who presented their findings at the USENIX Security Symposium. But the technology also makes it easier to counteract attacks.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In today’s highly interconnected ecosystem, businesses rely on many other companies to keep their operations running smoothly. The all-new Securing B2B Payments Report highlights how these solutions are helping B2B partners to quickly and securely make payments and keep their relationships strong. Around The B2B Payment Spa ce.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The company said the hackers weren’t able to steal any credit card numbers or passwords, and added that it has hired forensic security experts to determine how the hackers got access. The hack comes just a few days after some of OkCupid’s users reported that their accounts were hacked, something the online dating operator denied.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Very Good Security (VGS), a startup working to protect data, told TechCrunch on Tuesday (August 28) that it raised $8.5 Andreessen Horowitz partner Alex Rampell is joining the Very Good Security board as a result of the investment. Real card numbers are only swapped back in when a payment is being sent to the processor.

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JULY 18, 2018

Chef’d , a the meal-kit operator, has halted its business operations after using up all its cash and failing to line up more of it. Executives tried to secure new funding from private investors and banks, but nothing came of the negotiations. Chef’d was an early player in selling boxed meals both in stores and via the Internet.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

One way to cut the paper chase is for companies to embrace commercial card products, which can speed payments and aggregate information alongside those payments, while reducing errors and eliminating security risks typically associated with ACH transactions. He offered an example in which a U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2019

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab revealed at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit in Singapore that a dark net marketplace in which hackers are selling digital fingerprints has emerged. The profiles include a bevy of information on the consumer, including fingerprints. The information sells for anywhere from $5 to $200.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Keeping customers' digital payment data safe and secure is a critical part of doing business in the digital economy, and following Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance guidelines is an effective way for firms to accomplish this. Carlson pointed to HealPay’s over-the-phone card payment compliance offerings as an example.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Nicolas Dinh , chief operating officer of year-old Canadian financial startup STACK , recently spoke with PYMNTS about the key forms of fraud that nascent mobile financial services firms face and how companies can leverage security technologies and partnerships to gain customers’ trust. Partnering With Established Players.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Westlake has already sent several million dollars over the RTP network during the pandemic, according to Westlake’s Director of Accounting Operations Raul Alvarez. As with any payment method, fraud attacks and human errors can upend customer experiences unless companies have strong security strategies in place. Contingency Planning.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Darden Restaurants announced Wednesday (August 23) that the data on 567,000 payment card numbers may have been exposed. The company said payment card information — including card numbers — from visitors who went to the restaurants from Nov. 3, 2017, through Jan. 2 2018 may have been affected.

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APRIL 2, 2018

CNBC, citing Equifax, said a “small percentage” of letters went out with incorrect personal information. consumers whose partial driver’s license information had been taken and that we would notify these newly identified U.S. Over the weekend, one person received a letter from Equifax which had the correct address but incorrect name.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Such boxes represent a small segment of the broader subscription market, but they face the same challenges, including fraud attempts like card-and-wallet tests and account takeovers (ATOs). Box-of-the-month services constantly struggle to secure their payment processes and remain a step ahead of bad actors.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Commercial cards account for only a portion of corporates’ overall spend, as checks stick around and ACH gains ground. However, their market share is on the rise as card issuers develop more robust rewards programs, and the ability to integrate card spend into back-office spend management and analytics platforms.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Beware the credit card test. There may be no escaping credit card fraud, as it comes in one form or another. Overall, one subset of card fraud is on the rise: Last year, Radial’s eCommerce Fraud Technology Lab said credit card testing was up triple-digit percentage points on an annualized basis.

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APRIL 20, 2017

based hospitality group which owns and operates brands like Crown Royale and Holiday Inn, recently reported finding malware in 1,200 of its U.S. The malware looks to have been designed to steal guests’ payment card information. We continue to work with the payment card networks.”. “We franchise hotel locations.

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JULY 17, 2018

Since the migration to EMV in the largest card market in the world (the U.S. in October of 2015), the incidences of counterfeit card fraud at chip-enabled merchants have fallen sharply — some 76 percent, as reported by card networks. Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

And the farmer who uses drones to help monitor operations – yet may not be able (or might not know how) to take steps needed to secure his or her server – is rendered vulnerable. Despite the advent of chip technology in credit cards, which has improved security, bad actors continually look to circumvent systems in place.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

According to the report, citing a senior bank official, the hackers used a malware attack to clone thousands of the bank’s debit cards over the course of two days. The cloned cards were Visa and RuPay debit cards of bank account holders that used the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) system, noted the report.

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APRIL 9, 2020

The cybercriminals demanded $6 million in ransom with a promise that they would not release the sensitive information of Travelex customers, including birthdates and credit card numbers. They claimed to have birthdates, credit card information and national insurance numbers and demanded the $6 million payment.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

The business email compromise (BEC) scam is a cybersecurity threat to businesses of all sizes, and the financial and security implications of a successful attack aren’t isolated to its target. It’s all in the name of siphoning company cash from accounts payable operations, and experts say the threat will continue to increase.

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MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report. Multiple crypto operations serving the country, however, are legally based in other nations. The agency claims that it seized phones, computer equipment and cash, with the inclusion of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

and divisions in the Netherlands, Singapore and South Korea — have embraced offerings like virtual and purchasing cards that expedite the payment workflow. . Virtual cards move payments quickly,” Phoenix said. “We Making Virtual Cards A Reality . In addition, virtual card numbers can be used only once before they expire. .

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