Category: E-payment & Data Security

December 7, 2018

Customers who pay for purchases with debit cards expect to take their items home instantly, but for the merchants they buy from, obtaining the money exchanged for goods is anything but instant. The payment that has been made by the […]

December 3, 2018

The gateway weekend to the busiest shopping season of the year appears to be evolving in some interesting ways. Black Friday isn’t just for going out to ye olde brick-and-mortar shops anymore — it’s becoming much more of an online […]

November 26, 2018

Amazon may be especially tight-lipped about this breach because of its timing, just ahead of the unofficial launch of the holiday shopping season. The news is nevertheless likely to affect sales, especially in light of escalating competition online from Target, […]

November 26, 2018

For chief information security officers in retail and e-commerce, identity theft can be seen as both a result and potential symptom of broader security breach activity. While they are trying to build high walls to keep all the attackers out, […]

November 15, 2018

With holiday e-commerce sales headed into record territory this year, more consumers will be shopping online. Chances are fraud will be that much greater, as well. Of the 10 retailers LastPass ranked, all are reputed to be leaders in technology, […]

November 12, 2018

It’s late 2018, and brick-and-mortar stores have not been vaporized from the landscape — people actually shop in them, and plan to keep doing so this holiday season. In fact, more retailers have become focused on refining in-store shopper experiences […]

October 22, 2018

Last week saw a major push by the traditional credit card networks to increase sector-wide support for tokenization. This announcement fits right in with Visa’s announcement of several new network partners for its Visa Token Service, and a move by […]

October 19, 2018

For American Express, this is another step in the company’s effort to shake off its legacy image as a stodgy credit card network that in the past has seemed unable or unwilling to evolve with the changing payments landscape. AmEx […]

October 18, 2018

This past summer, a Thales data threat report found that U.S. retailers lead the world in data breaches. One of the most recent breaches affected fashion retailer Shein, and that incident again made it abundantly clear that the problem is […]

October 11, 2018

Facebook’s Pixel program leverages cookies, bits of code stored in Internet browsers that Facebook says are “used to distinguish between website visitors,” as well as for the purpose of advertising and, or analytics, according to a Facebook blog post. Consumers […]