February 22, 2016 - Multinational survey of 8,000 consumers reveals that erosion in trust impacts the potential for mobile services personalization.

January 29, 2016 - HSBC customers remain locked out of internet banking into the afternoon after the bank was subject to a denial of service attack on Friday morning.

January 18, 2016 - British financial services firms expect IT to be the main area to see an increase in capital spending over the next year as the industry braces itself for the fintech revolution.

February 18, 2016 - BioCatch, a global leader in Behavioral Authentication and Malware Detection, announced today that its behavioral authentication platform is the first to successfully detect Remote Access and RAT-in-the-Mobile (RitM) malware, in real time.

January 27, 2016 - American fast food chain Wendy's is investigating possible fraudulent charges to cards used at some of its restaurants.

January 18, 2016 - With smart watches, fitness trackers and payment wristbands expected to account for one in five mobile payment transactions by 2020 – representing $500 billion a year– it is inevitable that they will become a growing target for cyber-attack, according to WISeKey and Kaspersky Lab.

February 9, 2016 - A year after Kaspersky Lab warned that cyber-criminals would start to adopt the tools and tactics of nation-state backed APTs in order to rob banks, the company has confirmed the return of Carbanak as Carbanak 2.0 and uncovered two more groups working in the same style: Metel and GCMAN. They attack financial organizations using covert APT-style reconnaissance and customized malware along with legitimate software and new, innovative schemes to cash out.

January 26, 2016 - A global study of 3700 IT security practitioners conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows increasing risks to payment data and a lack of confidence in securing mobile transactions.

January 15, 2016 - Hyatt Hotels has found signs of malware designed to steal payment card information at 250 of its sites.

February 8, 2016 - In an ongoing effort to protect the accounts and account information of its users, Gyft is notifying users who may have been affected by a security incident.

January 21, 2016 - Global IT and cybersecurity association ISACA has launched two free digital tools through its Cybersecurity Nexus (CSX):

January 14, 2016 - Firms supplying essential services, e.g. for energy, transport, banking and health, or digital ones, such as search engines and cloud computing, will have to take action to improve their ability to withstand cyber-attacks under new rules approved by Internal Market MEPs on Thursday.