Visa and Mastercard, two titans of the global payment card industry, are under intense scrutiny in Europe as a coalition of major retailers and industry associations formally request intervention from the European Commission. The heart of the issue lies in soaring transaction fees and the...
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Navigating the world of in-app purchases on Windows has never been more interesting—especially when app developers choose to bypass the familiar Microsoft payment platform in favor of alternative billing systems. In this article, we explore what these non-Microsoft billing platforms mean for...
Original release date: October 2, 2018 | Last revised: December 21, 2018
Systems Affected
Retail Payment Systems
Overview
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), and the...
Original release date: October 02, 2018
Systems Affected
Retail Payment Systems
Overview
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Original release date: July 31, 2014
Systems Affected
Point-of-Sale Systems
Overview
This advisory was prepared in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), United States Secret Service (USSS), Financial Sector Information Sharing and...
Web applications increasingly integrate third-party services. The integration introduces new security challenges due to the complexity for an application to coordinate its internal states with those of the component services and the web client across the Internet. In this paper, we study the...