Contrary to rampant misconception, we have not adopted the more secure chip and PIN payment standard in the United States that could address the rapid rise in online fraud. Leading up to last year’s ...

Like Mexico last year and Europe for many years, Canada this year embraced the chip-and-pin credit card security standard. That means U.S.-based corporate travelers increasingly may find that magnetic ...

For years, the U.S. has been divided on whether EMV-chip cards should be deployed as chip-and-PIN cards or the simpler chip-and-signature. After the Target data breach drew attention to the threat of ...

Now that we’ve adopted chip cards in the U.S., magnetic stripe cards are becoming a thing of the past. But does that do away with your risk for credit card skimming? Unfortunately, no — while chip-and ...

Chip-enabled credit cards will now become the standard for consumers and business owners. Banks and credit companies have been sending consumers new cards, which look like their old cards but are ...

The days of swiping your credit card at the cash register are numbered, as a new nationwide plan to protect your private data from hackers starts to go into effect in Southern California. Credit card ...

A chip and PIN card is a credit card that includes microchip technology and a personal identification number (PIN) to securely verify a cardholder during a transaction. The embedded microchip is ...

TRI-CITIES, TN/VA (WJHL) – The National Retail Federation says in 2014, 87-million people shopped on Black Friday and they predict for this holiday shopping, sales will rise 3.7%. In 2013, the credit ...

Target, the nation's second-largest discount retailer and best-known data breach poster child, has begun issuing its house brand REDcards with chip and PIN. "We are in the process of reissuing all of ...

It’s been nearly a month since the highly anticipated October 1 EMV deadline, whereby merchants across the country became responsible for upgrading their payment terminals to accept new chip-equipped ...