The iPhone security scare: Is LoopWallet a solution?

February 26, 2014

For some time, it's been a matter of debate throughout the financial services world whether information stored on a mobile device is truly secure — or can be.

Nine killed as police ambush gang during ATM explosive attack

February 26, 2014

Acting on a tip, police in Brazil staged a massive ambush on Saturday against a 15-member gang believed responsible for explosive attacks on ATMs. Nine gang…

Solidifying Financial Relationships Between Businesses and Banks

VersaSafe gives State Bank an edge in Georgia's commercial banking market.

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The appropriate use of customer payment data

Acquiring and sharing customer data has become "one of the most hotly negotiated" deal points in the mobile payments M&A community. A payments attorney asks a…

Emirates NBD, NCR partner for ATM channel revamp

February 21, 2014

NCR Corp. has signed a 5-year, multimillion dollar agreement to provide unified ATM and self-service hardware, software and services for Emirates NBD, the…

PCI SSC makes sure nothing gets 'lost in translation'

February 21, 2014

Today, the PCI Security Standards Council, an open global forum for the development of payment card security standards, announced that the PCI Data Security…

Louisiana's First Federal an early mover to Windows 7

February 21, 2014

With Windows XP end of support looming on April 8, First Federal Bank of Louisiana has called on Diebold Inc. to help upgrade its Opteva ATMs to run on the…

ID Tech releases new PCI 3.x certified PIN entry device

February 20, 2014

PIN entry solution provider ID Tech has announced the release of its PCI 3.x-certified modular PIN entry device, the SmartPIN B100.

CBN kicks off $50M biometric ATM project

February 20, 2014

While one bank in China tests the waters of biometric authentication at the ATM, an entire nation in Africa is taking the plunge. On Feb. 14, the Central Bank…

Chinese bank implements finger-vein ID at the ATM

February 20, 2014

This week, the Bank of Lanzhou, headquartered in China's Gansu province, activated its first OKI ATM incorporating finger-vein authentication technology. A…

When XP gets the axe, then what?

by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications

What to do when the useful life of an ATM far outlasts its software? A March 4 webinar provides an answer.

Community FIs reissue 4M cards in the wake of data breaches

February 19, 2014

Following a spate of high profile card data thefts, America's community banks have so far reissued more than 4 million bank cards at a total cost of more than…

Authorities propose feeding ATM CCTV footage into police servers

February 19, 2014

Authorities in Bhubaneswar, a city in India's Odisha state, are proposing that banks integrate their CCTV feed with police servers in order to improve ATM…

It's 11:27; do you know what your ATM anti-skimming technology is doing?

by Suzanne Cluckey — Owner, Suzanne Cluckey Communications

ACG solution takes monitoring online for anti-skimming devices.

Real-time service lets bank customers accept, reject debits

February 17, 2014

Customers of Los Alamos National Bank in New Mexico now have the option to receive a text message that alerts them when an electronic debit hits their…

RCMP says seized ATMs were money laundering stations

February 17, 2014

Police in the Canadian city of Winnipeg have seized a half-dozen white label ATMs they said were being used to launder money in a high-level trafficking…

Why multifactor authentication trumps knowledge-based authentication

by Robert Siciliano — speaker, IDTheftSecurity.com

First, what is knowledge-based authentication? KBA is an authentication method that asks the user to respond to at least one question whose correct answer only…

Ukraine hit by cyberattack using newest ATM trojan

February 14, 2014

ATMs located in public areas and belonging to one of the largest Ukrainian banks were simultaneously attacked in all regions of the country last weekend by…

MagTek offers free queries to fraud prevention database

February 13, 2014

MagTek, a Seal Beach, California-based provider of secure payment technology, announced this week it will provide merchants with free access to its card…

Gas pump skimming and ATMs

by atm Atom — blogger, atmatom

This month, the Manhattan District Attorney indicted four lead defendants on charges of skimming gas pumps to steal customer bank data, which was used steal…