The Rise of Biometrics in Consumer Applications – Risks and Rewards
To stay ahead of hackers, consumers create more elaborate passwords filled with dashes, digits and capitalizations. As a result, our…
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The Rise in Restaurant Data Breaches and the Need to Devalue Consumer Data
The restaurant and hospitality industries have been hit particularly hard by data breaches, with hotel brands, restaurants and establishments targeted…
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The Retail Industry’s Third-Party Data Breach Problem
Third party vendors are proving to be one of the weakest links when it comes to retail data breaches. This…
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The Race to Safeguard the U.S. Elections
From bank transfers to social media posts, information travels the globe in seconds. But technology doesn’t solve every problem. And…
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The Panama Papers & the Future of Encryption
By now, you’ve probably heard of the mess that is the Panama Papers. If not, let us give you a…
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The Painful Push to EMV: A One-Year Review
This Saturday marked the one year anniversary of the EMV “fraud liability shift” in the U.S. – the time, last…
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The new PCI-DSS 3.0 standard – Part 2
By Sam Pfanstiel, Solutions Engineer, Bluefin In my last blog, I discussed the specific drivers behind the new PCI-DSS 3.0…
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The Millennial Generation – Forging the Payment Frontier
Want to keep calm? Want to check out the daily surf report in Southern California? Need a recipe for tonight’s…
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The Journal of Accountancy Explores the Hidden Costs of a Data Breach
Think a data breach just hits the wallet? Not so reports the Journal of Accountancy. There are many intangible assets,…
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The Increase in Wire Fraud from Data Breaches
In August 2019, Paige A. Thompson was indicted by a federal grand jury for wire fraud and computer data theft…
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