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Understanding POS Security: Protecting Your Business and Customer Data

VISTA InfoSec

MAY 12, 2024

Don’t Allow Swiped Transactions You may want to avoid processing older magnetic stripe cards in favor of Near Field Communication (NFC) and EMV chip cards. This will help ensure that the solutions you use contain the features that are most needed to ward off unauthorized access to payment data.

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Chip card migration a gift for holiday e-commerce crooks: reports

Payments Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A full year into the EMV migration, crooks are expected to be even more aggressive about attacking soft spots in online and mobile transactions.

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You Haven’t Been Yourself Lately: Digital Identity Trends 2020

PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

The launch of EMV chip cards in the U.S. Despite their success, the use of EMV cards with no required PIN codes has left a door unlocked for crooks. The trade group wants unified card security standards in the U.S., EMV cards and other anti-fraud measures have had a major impact on fraud behavior.

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Too Much Security? There’s No Such Thing

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2017

Between account takeovers, business logic abuse, loyalty and reward points fraud and other cybersecurity attack methods, companies are not only suffering financial damages but brand image damages too. Not according to Angel Grant, director of Global Product Marketing and Strategy for cybersecurity firm RSA.

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Credit Card Chips Still Under Attack From Thieves

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Consumers might have felt a bit safer using their credit card with the introduction of EMV chip technology, but thieves looking to steal your information have managed to find a way to still gain access to PIN numbers, as well as your card’s chip in some cases. in 2016.

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Hacker Tracker: Shimmers, Identity Fraud, And Hacked Hotels

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Just when payment card data seemed somewhat protected by EMV technology, hackers have found yet another way to steal information and gain access to PINs. The research showed that during 2016 there was a resurgence in existing card fraud, which saw an increase of 40 percent in card-not-present fraud.

Account Takeovers

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Vesta Corporation Shows Innovation A Hidden Victim Of Fraud

PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2017

The threat cybersecurity holds over corporations today is massive. The majority of CFOs surveyed (and 62 percent of all execs surveyed) told Vesta and CFO Research that their experience with fraud has increased since the introduction of EMV chip cards, displaying both an increase in the number of and value of credit card chargebacks.

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Hacker Tracker: Money-making Ransomware, Gmail Phishing, CNP Fraud On The Rise

PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2017

In this week’s Hacker Tracker , Radware shares its global cybersecurity research on what’s really motivating cybercriminals, a Gmail phishing attack targets savvy users and the U.S.’s s card-not-present fraud situation may get worse before it gets better. Money On The (Cybercriminal) Brain. Research and Markets wrote.

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Chip Shield’s $20 Online Fraud Solution

PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

A new personal chip card reader will soon hit the market with the goal of protecting consumers while shopping and banking online and ultimately preventing online fraud — at an introductory price of just $20.

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PYMNTS Data Dive | Why Can’t We Be Friends Edition: Walmart, Central Banks And Google

PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

But things heated up last week when Walmart sued Visa over EMV and chips without PINs. to get updated to in advance of the EMV liability shift. It has been a less-than-wholly-inspiring week for the cybersecurity of central banks, with multiple central banks reporting attempts to steal funds by hackers. Banks Under Siege.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Payday Loans, Wells Fargo, Chip Cards – And Cybersecurity

PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

Merchants and Chip Cards. EMV is just too slow at checkout and the process needs to be faster. Last month, both Visa and MasterCard released new specs that enable a “swipe-like” consumer experience such that consumers can insert and remove their chip cards without having to wait for the transaction to be completed.

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Could The Future Of Fighting Fraud On The ‘Dark Web’ Actually Be Bright?

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

As he sees it, “credit card fraud is the slush fund for much worse stuff.”. Still, he said he doubts that the prospect of credit card fraud keeps many bankers up at night. So the right cybersecurity move is to view such fraud as a step toward bigger fraud attempts. One big reason?

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Payments Space

Understanding POS Security: Protecting Your Business and Customer Data

Chip card migration a gift for holiday e-commerce crooks: reports

Trending Sources

You Haven’t Been Yourself Lately: Digital Identity Trends 2020

Too Much Security? There’s No Such Thing

Credit Card Chips Still Under Attack From Thieves

Hacker Tracker: Shimmers, Identity Fraud, And Hacked Hotels

Vesta Corporation Shows Innovation A Hidden Victim Of Fraud

Hacker Tracker: Money-making Ransomware, Gmail Phishing, CNP Fraud On The Rise

Chip Shield’s $20 Online Fraud Solution

PYMNTS Data Dive | Why Can’t We Be Friends Edition: Walmart, Central Banks And Google

Sizzle Or Fizzle: Payday Loans, Wells Fargo, Chip Cards – And Cybersecurity

Could The Future Of Fighting Fraud On The ‘Dark Web’ Actually Be Bright?

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