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Super Apps Rising: Mobile Drives Digital Payments Uptick In Pakistan

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The conversation came against the backdrop where i2c announced a partnership with TAG, to launch a super app that provides instant payments capability to Pakistan’s unbanked adult population, which at present numbers about 100 million individuals. Issuance Matters, Too . To that end, Amir Wain , CEO of i2c Inc. It will happen.”.

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Small Town Government, Big Time Cybercrime

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They attack every industry you can think of,” said Ron Bush, an information security consultant, in a recent interview with NWI.com. . The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s official position on the matter is to not pay the ransom. “Americans are getting their identities stolen every two seconds. We’re at war and don’t realize it.

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Urban Massage’s Customer Database Leaked

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Security researcher Oliver Hough told TechCrunch that the site’s Google-hosted ElasticSearch database was left online without a password, exposing hundreds of thousands of customer and staff records. Urban is looking into this as a matter of utmost urgency.

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Digital Fraud Is An Inside Job

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Try wrapping your mind around the price tag of the average corporate data breach at $3.92 The matter is explored in detail, with a special focus on threat intelligence, in The Digital Fraud Tracker ® for January 2020, a PYMNTS and DataVisor collaboration. million per incident. Then multiply that by the 4.1 The figures are staggering.

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Return Season Hits Hard; Some Retailers See Bright Side Of Customer Experience

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With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. But before getting to the positive ramifications, the fact of the matter is that retailers are facing an unprecedented amount of returns.

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Symantec Plans To Address Internal Investigation

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Cowen also said “it could be a while before transparency and investor confidence improves,” even though the firm cautioned that the matter, while serious, “may all amount to nothing.”. That deal came with a price tag of $4.65 billion , and Symantec brought in several of the company’s executives. Symantec said it alerted the U.S.

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Making Marketplaces For Experiences

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As one might expect, the price tag goes up the more genuinely once-in-a-lifetime the experience gets — and for the more luxurious and exotic packaging options, prices on the site quickly span to thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. Moreover, competition in the field is not a bad thing.