An agreement to jointly develop secure ICs for contactless card systems has been announced by Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany), a designer of secure chip cards, and Sony (Tokyo, Japan), a ...

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If you thought your new credit card and a fancy RFID-blocking wallet will protect you from credit card scams when you travel, ...

The advent of contactless payment technology brings with it new opportunities for stealing information from a credit card without the owner’s notice. Consider the following scenario: a person with a ...

Forget RFID-blocking wallets. Cybersecurity pros reveal why real-time transaction monitoring is the only way to beat modern ...

ELIZABETH, N.J. — Wakefern Food Corp. here has become the second major food retailing enterprise to accept contactless credit cards from the major card associations as a payment vehicle. Wakefern, a ...

Credit card chips have been in modern cards for a while now, and are a security feature used for authentication, as Mastercard ditched the magnetic stripe completely years ago. But to make it all work ...

ALTOONA, Pa. -- The Sheetz convenience store chain here will roll out a radio frequency-based credit/rewards card. It will also install receivers equipped to accept the card and other RF-based ...

Rule changes coming into force from Thursday will mean that banks and payment providers with strong fraud controls will be able to set their own contactless card payment limits in future. While ...

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