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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

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EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. The EMV standard has now become a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions.

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Cilab adds new solutions for contact smart card and production line testing

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“Our new ci200 production line tester, meanwhile, is the ultimate chip card module and personalization testing tool for your production lines. ” Contact cards “Smart cards with contact and contactless interfaces are ubiquitous. . “The ci200 provides full testing flexibility.

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Chargebacks: A Survival Guide

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This makes it easier to prove that the cardholder is the one using the card — so easy that, beginning in April, Visa will reject chargebacks with certain fraud reason codes if the card was electronically read. Use Address Verification Service (AVS) Consider using the Address Verification Service anti-fraud tool.

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Everything You Need to Know About Credit Card Processing

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These can include terminal fees, early termination fees, setup fees, reprogramming fees, PCI compliance fees, address verification fees, chargeback and retrieval fees, and payment gateway fees. Needless to say, there are a number of things you need to keep an eye out for on your credit card processing statement every month.

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Home Depot Sues MasterCard, Visa Over Chip Card Security

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and Canada affected 56 million debit and credit cards, far more than the attack on Target customers. Hackers also stole 53 million email addresses from Home Depot customers. Home Depot pushed hard to activate chip-enabled checkout terminals at all of its stores after the 2014 attack.

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Machine Learning Improves CNP Fraud Detection Rates by 30%*

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While adoption of the EMV payment standard in the US (as embodied in chip cards and panic at the checkout ) has been slow, fraudsters’ gravitation to card not present (CNP) fraud has been anything but. merchants who decide not to, or are unable to accept EMV cards), most consumers have “embraced the chip.”

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Identifying What’s Next In Digital Identity

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If you’re playing the slots in Vegas this week, there’s a good chance they’re coming up: Biometrics; EMV chip cards; Mobile security. He pointed to the recent security breach at Yahoo, in which fraudsters stole login credentials, comprised of email addresses and passwords, for more than 22 million user accounts.

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