Consumers, businesses, retailers, and even the media are becoming numb to news about data breaches. Not a week goes by...

Around 1994, when I operated a small mail order catalog business, it was very difficult to obtain “merchant status,” or...

Criminals often target cash machines, as well as various other automated kiosks that dispense DVDs, tickets, or other merchandise. They...

Network World reports, “The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) polled 77 financial institutions and asked how many...

Retailers can temporarily rejoice (for about a minute) now that six cyber villains have been caught in two different international...

In 2005, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council stated: “The agencies consider single-factor authentication, as the only control mechanism, to...

If you use Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo, you know your email is accessible from any computer or smartphone. That’s because...

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council recently released a supplement to the guide it issued in 2005, on authentication in...

For the uninitiated, per Wikipedia “DEF CON” (also written as DEFCON or Defcon) is one of the world’s largest annual...

I’m a little more than a casual online shopper, so I make lots of electronic payments. I prefer to avoid...