If you live in or travel to a country that controls what websites citizens can and cannot view, then you might not have access to sites like Facebook or YouTube. In this case you might have …

When getting on a flight that's three to five hours long (or more), many business professionals wrestle with the decision whether to spend the $12.95 for airplane WiFi, take a nap or watch the movie …

To understand how protected you are, you need to understand how unprotected free public wireless is. This has nothing to do with how secure Apple devices are compared to Android. By default, free …

Mobile computing is the new frontier of personal technology. Whether you are on a phone or tablet, if you have a carrier connection, you are mobile. Today, most of us can't live without our mobile …

The cybercrime landscape is always growing and changing as hackers look for new ways to make money. Last year was no different as McAfee Labs found huge growth in malicious software and activities …

Imagine that your body is being targeted by 75 million viruses. That is exactly what's happening to digital devices at any given moment. And smartphones and tablets are being targeted in record …

Contactless technology offers many benefits over magnetic stripe technology, including faster and easier transactions, versatility to be incorporated into various personal devices, including mobile …

Experian's Chris Ryan addressed five major questions about compliance with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's recent guidance on banking authentication. What follows are his …

EMV, which stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, refers to the chip and PIN payment card technology commonly used in Europe and elsewhere around the world. Credit cards that incorporate an …

In what is considered "the largest identity theft takedown in U.S. history," 111 individuals were indicted for "stealing the personal credit information of thousands of unwitting American and …

Criminals often target cash machines, as well as various other automated kiosks that dispense DVDs, tickets or other merchandise. They have discovered numerous techniques for compromising these …

Consumers enjoy a certain level of protection that business bank accounts do not, and it's called "Regulation E." Limitations on amount of liability—a consumer's liability for an unauthorized …

Identity theft victims don't need Jessica Van Vliet, an assistant professor in counseling psychology at the University of Alberta, to tell them that they no longer feel safe when conducting everyday …

Mobile banking is on the rise for more reasons than convenience. In truth, it's more secure than traditional online baking. Accessing your bank's mobile website or using your bank's mobile …

FFIEC is the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, which is a government body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards and report forms for the federal examination of …

Today, there are more than 2.2 million ATMs worldwide, and by 2015 there will be around 3 million. ATM skimming accounts for as much as 30 percent of all data theft. That's about $350,000 in fraud …

Even more amazing is that if a criminal were caught gluing ATM keys, he would most likely only receive a misdemeanor vandalism charge, as opposed to a larceny, which would put him in jail. The law …

Former Google Android security framework engineer Chris Palmer, who is now technology director of the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, addresses the risks posed by mobile operating system …

The Federal Trade Commission recently released the list of the most common consumer complaints in 2010. Identity theft topped the list for the eleventh year in a row. The FTC received 1,339,265 in …

The latest ATM scam is so brilliantly simple, it's hard to believe that it actually works. Apparently, banks' fraud detection systems are unable to flag nearly simultaneous transactions from the same …