Discussing the PCI Software Security Framework: What Merchants Need to Know

Payment acceptance begins with confidence in the security of transmitting data.  As technology advances and new platforms emerge, the security of the software that supports those transactions becomes increasingly critical to safeguarding payment information. Modern software development requires objective-focused security to support more nimble development and update cycles than traditional software development practices. This issue…

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Ransomware Campaigns During COVID-19

As the world collectively grapples with the health, societal, and economic impacts of COVID-19, businesses everywhere are facing a hidden parallel threat. Hackers and malicious actors are using the confusion and anxiety to pry open new and existing vulnerabilities, and cybersecurity firms around the world are seeing a drastic increase in attacks. Ransomware This is…

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The Future of Retail in a Time of Uncertainty

Four months ago, the Javits Center in New York City was bustling with more than 40,000 people attending the National Retail Federation (NRF) 2020 Vision: Retail’s Big Show. Navigating retail innovation across four incongruent floors covering 760,000 square feet – with a 15-story glass-enclosed Crystal Palace high and wide enough for endless imagination – seems…

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Current COVID-19 Trend: Malspam Campaigns

The entire world is on edge, watching as COVID-19 continues to spread at an exponential rate. The uncertainty and unknowns around the illness have all of us thirsty for news and information about the virus: we all want to know what’s going on and how we can best protect our families. Hackers are taking full…

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COVID-19 Phishing Campaigns

The cyberthreats following in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic are not substantively different from the threats that security professionals have dealt with during other national or global calamities like the Indian Ocean tsunami, Amazon fires, floods, and hurricanes. Sophisticated cybercriminal, state-sponsored threat actors, and hacktivists have always taken advantage of widespread anxieties in times…

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