India’s central bank to allow linking credit cards with UPI – TechCrunch

India’s central bank proposed on Wednesday an integration between UPI and credit cards in a significant boost for a fast-growing payments protocol that has become the most popular way individuals in the South Asian market transact online. “UPI facilitates transactions by linking savings or current accounts through users’ debit cards,” said Shaktikanta Das, Governor of…

3 Software Plays Showing Signs of Recovery

It’s been a challenging year for most software stocks. MarketBeat.com – MarketBeat Concerns about IT budgets being pared back amid rising global economic uncertainty have slashed software company market values in 2022. Those that are unprofitable have seen the most dramatic recalibrations. Thankfully, the worst may be over. Last month the S&P North American Expanded…

How Hackers Choose Their Victims

Enforcing the “double-extortion” technique aka pay-now-or-get-breached emerged as a head-turner last year. May 6th, 2022 is a recent example. The State Department said the Conti strain of ransomware was the most costly in terms of payments made by victims as of January. Conti, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) program, is one of the most notorious ransomware groups…