A recently published report dealing with phishing and crimeware trends in Q2 2008 indicates a marked increase in the activity of cybercrimi...

Card Fraud is on the rise globally and Australia is no exception.  In the land down under, card fraud jumped 45 per cent to more than $131 m...

Finextra interviews Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). Click here to go to Finextra and watch it ...

Report: 21 million German bank accounts for sale | ITworld IDG News Service — Black market criminals are offering to sell details on 21 mill...

After reading this press release, I asked myself how many dormant accounts I might have.  According to a survey conducted by Ipsos Reid for ...

VeriSign Survey Finds Nearly Ten Times as Many Consumers Feel Trust Is More Important Than Cost When Transacting Online Even in Trying Times...

Results of the tenth annual CyberSource Corporation survey of eCommerce fraud, released today, show merchants expect to lose a record $4 bi...

The graphic on the left suggests that a  paradigm shift is occurring when it comes to where US Internet users choose to shop.  Retail or e-t...

After reading articles like this, which basically state what everyone already knows... signature debit is much less secure than PIN debit, ...

'Mega Monday' Lived Up To Its Billing Say Online Retailers | Business | Sky News 'Mega Monday' turned out to be just that fo...

Obviously this is relevant to the blog as I've posted many times about skimming, but, in all honesty, there are underlying reasons for ...

openPR.com - Press release - Deutsche Card Services- Women Predominate in European Online Retail for the first Time Pago Retail Report 2008 ...

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance regulation affects almost all merchants that accept credit and debit card payments, with the goal...

NFC no answer for mobile, but alternatives offer promise Once, NFC ( Near Field Communication ) was the leading contender among technologies...

Motorola, CIECC to Set Up M-Commerce Laboratory in China Motorola has opened China's first M-Commerce Laboratory in Beijing by joining h...

Mercator maps 2008 Japanese payment card market Boston, Dec. 9, 2008 -- With close to 800 million credit and debit cards in circulation at t...

Merchant Risk Council Unveils Agenda for 2009 e-Commerce Conference (Seattle, WA—December 9, 2008) The Merchant Risk Council (MRC) is pleas...

Digital Transaction News posted an interesting article regarding Payment Application data-security standard or PA-DSS and it's affect on...

Digging Deeper Into the CheckFree Attack Last week I featured an article from Brian Krebs of the Washington Post regarding Fiserv's Chec...

In an article written by Linda McGlasson, the Managing Editor of Bank Info Security, she takes a look at the 10 Greatest Risks to Banks in 2...