Anthem’s recent data breach underscores the need for stronger security and highlights the potential harm that hackers can cause.
Your holiday shopping experience will be different next year, because by October 2015 most retailers in the U.S. will have switched to accepting the chip-in-a-credit-card-based EMV standard (which stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa. But will it
The holiday shopping season is also the holiday scamming season. Whether you shop online or at the mall, be mindful of these three types of scams.
The introduction of Apple Pay -- and CVS and Rite Aid's subsequent disabling of the technology -- has retail CIOs once again rethinking the way customers pay at the cash register.
In the wake of numerous high-profile data breaches, some security experts question the effectiveness of PCI compliance. Should PCI standards do more than set a baseline for security -- and should they be given teeth for when companies don’t com
Customers cringe every time they hear about a bank, retail or healthcare hack that puts personal or financial data at risk. Today's hackers are after much more that credit card numbers, though -- and most firms are powerless to stop them.
Banks and social media firms have taken steps to protect their customers from email scams, according to recent research. However, the travel and healthcare industries remain vulnerable. All the more troubling: Spam and phishing show no signs of going
As IT departments are called upon to play larger, more public roles in today's businesses, the skill set of the ideal IT employee has changed. How can companies identify whether a job candidate has the 'soft skills' to bridge the gap b
