March 29, 2016 - Global technical body EMVCo has released a bulletin updating the EMV® Payment Tokenisation Specification – Technical Framework to provide the payment community with a global, consistent framework to implement 'Payment Account Reference' (PAR). To be used by merchants, acquirers and payment processors, PAR can enhance security by limiting references to a cardholder's primary account number (PAN) in the payment ecosystem.
March 24, 2016 - The US Justice Department has indicted seven Iranians connected to the country's government with cyber-attacks on a host of major banks.
March 24, 2016 - Tripwire, Inc., a leading global provider of endpoint protection and response, security and compliance solutions, today announced the results of a survey of 200 security professionals attending the RSA Conference 2016between February 29-March 4, 2016.
March 23, 2016 - The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, Matt Hancock, has confirmed today that the UK's new national cyber centre, announced by the Chancellor in November, will be called the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
March 18, 2016 - Swiss financial markets watchdog Finma has pushed through a raft of new initiatives in a bid to stimulate further growth and innovation in the country's emerging fintech sector.
March 18, 2016 - Russian banks have lost $25.7 million in the past six months to a new form of malware that infects IT networks and can only be eradicated by a complete infrastructure shut-down.
March 17, 2016 - American Express is writing to some card members warning that their account information has been compromised by a data breach at a third party provider.
March 16, 2016 - The ability of financial institutions' compliance function to manage risk is being challenged by rising expectations for the function to play a stronger role in front-office processes, the increased volume and complexity of regulations, and a lagging data and technology architecture, according to a new compliance risk report from Accenture (ACN).
