Mastercard splurges $2.65B on another big cyber purchase – Recorded Future

Mastercard has added another security asset to its growing portfolio, laying down $2.65 billion for threat intelligence giant Recorded Future. It's a blue chip buy for Mastercard. The payment goliath claims security analysis platform Recorded Future is used by government agencies in 45 countries and over 50 percent of the …

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Yay for surveillance capitalism

This is fine.

[Anonymous Coward]

nice write-up

As @throat above. but, i dont want to fuel the hate against a soft target.

AI saved me money in a fraud scam recently. So thanks. Keep it there. There is no way I want YOUR AI anywhere near my money. This is MONEY$. My LLM works on my money. You just hold and protect it it, ladies. AI is 2 miles high and climbing in terms of how far away it is from understanding the implications of its actions upon humans. Blocking a dodgy request is easy. Paying for my shopping too. But when it comes to reason, it has nothing. I still choose because its' choices are in its infancy.

"surveillance capitalism"

yep. but these boys will have to introduce Precog - if they haven't already.

[Anonymous Coward]

Who needs the Crypto Secure service?

“its Crypto Secure service, which checks cryptocurrency and the exchanges that trade it for security and fraud.”

Cryptocurrency and its exchanges are scams, no need to pay for someone to tell you that.

[Robert Helpmann??]

Re: Who needs the Crypto Secure service?

Cryptocurrency and its exchanges are scams!

Ah, but are you willing to pay someone to stop telling you that? Me for example? Or I can tell you again...

Cryptocurrency and its exchanges are scams!

Or just pay me to make the statement on a regular basis. I'm flexible.

Cryptocurrency and its exchanges are scams!

Cryptocurrency and its exchanges are scams, no need to pay for someone to tell you that.