How Apple Pay beat the odds because of great design

Rivals have fallen away and while it's taken a long time to be adopted very widely in the US, it's practically ubiquitous overseas. Apple's uphill battle to bring us Apple Pay was a fight that began publicly on September 9, 2014.


Tell the average American person or American company about Apple Pay and even more a decade on, they will invariably be more wary of its security than, say, Europeans. They need more convincing that it's safe and this is a direct but unfortunate consequence of how bad the current US financial transaction system is.

According to a Security.org report, 52 million Americans were victims of credit card fraud in just 2023 alone. Unauthorized purchases exceeded $5 billion that year.


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nmap -sV --script vuln -p- <target-network>

tail -f /var/log/suricata/fast.log | grep <cve>

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title: Detect Exploitation - How Apple Pay beat the odds because of great design
id: e8bf7cd0-c868-410e-be7a-c49e14647362
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
  - https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-24
logsource:
  category: network_connection
  product: any
detection:
  selection:
      CommandLine|contains:
        - 'exploit'
  condition: selection
falsepositives:
  - Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
  - attack.initial_access

rule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
    meta:
        author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
        date = "2026-09-24"
        description = "YARA Signature for "
    strings:
        $str = "How Apple Pay beat the odds be" ascii wide
    condition:
        any of them
}