(WKRG) – Chip and pin cards started in Europe and were successful in decreasing credit card fraud. “You inserted it into the point of sale terminal, and then you had to enter your pin in while it’s ...

Chip-and-PIN readers can be tricked into accepting transactions without a valid personal identification number, opening the door to fraud, researchers have found. Researchers at Cambridge University ...

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U.S. banks are steadily shipping more secure chip-embedded credit and debit cards to consumers, but industry attention is also focused on whether merchants have installed updated payment terminals to ...

Many of the large payment card breaches that hit retail and hospitality businesses in recent years were the result of attackers infecting point-of-sale systems with memory-scraping malware. But there ...

Calling it a “sophisticated criminal effort,” Barnes & Noble Inc. on Wednesday reported tampering occurred on PIN pads at 63 of its stores in nine states. The company on Sept. 14 disconnected every ...

As news spreads about the PIN-pad skimming breach that compromised data processed via 90 terminals across 20 states at arts and crafts outlets owned by Michaels Stores, security experts warn that this ...