Postilion drives Africa's migration to EMV chip and PIN

April 19, 2009

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Postilion, a division of S1 Corp., is assisting its African banking and retail clients in updating their technology during the…

Remote key loading: The next in ATM security for ISOs

by Tracy Kitten — Editor, AMC

With Triple DES behind them, ISOs give remote ATM key loading a second look.

2008 was a year of security, payment card breaches, report says

April 15, 2009

CNET: Payment card breaches in 2008 led to the most compromises and security breaches of record in the last four years, according to a new report from Verizon…

Australian police suspect Romanian gang behind $1 million ATM scam

April 13, 2009

Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald: A crime syndicate, believed to be from Romania, is suspected of being behind a spate of recent ATM skimming incidents that…

Blogger says ATM skimming attacks are on the rise in the U.S.

April 12, 2009

WalletTop Blog: Three ATMs throughout the United States have been spotted with skimmers over the last three days, according to reports from The Consumerist.

ATM fraud more than doubles in Europe, security report says

A massive increase in ATM skimming is to blame for the increase, but efforts to curb fraud have kept overall cash losses at bay, one group says.

Eastern European ATMs become targets for criminals

April 12, 2009

The Moscow Times: Banks and retail locations in Russia have recently become breeding grounds for ATM thefts. Last week, a grocery store in Moscow's Tractor…

AT&T outage in Silicon Valley brings security into question

April 12, 2009

NewsFactor Network: A telecommunications network in Silicon Valley was taken down last week, and served as a reminder of just how vulnerable infrastructure…

U.S. Attorney prosecutes Romanian man for $50K ATM skimming theft

April 7, 2009

WGRZ-TV, Channel 2 (Buffalo, N.Y.): The United States Attorney's Office says it's prosecuting a Romanian man for stealing more than $50,000 through an…

Triton's Hayes joins NAAIO PCI committee

April 7, 2009

LONG BEACH, Miss. — Triton Systems of Delaware Inc. has announced that Chuck Hayes, Triton's product development manager, will be representing Triton on the…

Is your ATM network NETWORK compliant?

This evaluation is provided by Trusted Security Solutions, developers of the A98 ATM Initial Key establishment System. The A98 solution provides an automated…

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NCR sells 50,000th license of leading anti-skimming software for ATMs

April 5, 2009

DAYTON, Ohio — NCR Corp. has sold more than 50,000 licenses of Solidcore for APTRA, an ATM software security solution that prohibits the introduction of…

House says Visa, MasterCard are to blame for security hacks, card compromises

April 5, 2009

Forbes: In security breach cases last year, such as Hannaford Bros. supermarket and the card processing firm Heartland Payment Systems, cybercriminals gained…

PCI, customer data and the kiosk

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Post-TJX, kiosks remain a vulnerable step in the gathering, storing and transmitting of customer data. Here's how to shore them up.

Phisher sentenced to 50 months in U.S. prison for ATM scam

March 31, 2009

Wired: The first foreigner convicted of phishing in the United States was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison Monday. Defendant Ovidiu-Ionut Nicola-Roman…

Trusted Security provides A98 remote key protocol for Triton ATMs

March 30, 2009

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trusted Security Solutions Inc., provider of secure ATM-key management solutions, is working with Triton Systems of Delaware to provide its…

Australian skimming scam hits more states, banks

March 29, 2009

The West Australian: Cards and PINs of West Australians have been stolen in an elaborate skimming scam that police say is the first crime of its kind in the…

GPS tracking brings B of A ATM home, with the cash

March 29, 2009

(Atlanta) WXIA-TV, Channel 11: ATM thieves were foiled by GPS technology when they ripped a Bank of America ATM from its base using a forklift police believe…

Melbourne ATM scam suspected to hit $1 million

March 26, 2009

The Age: Police in Melbourne , Australia , now estimate about $1 million has been stolen through recent ATM scams. Five Romanian men face charges accusing…

Diebold issues security patch for Opteva ATMs, post Russian compromise

March 25, 2009

American Banker: Diebold Inc. issued a security patch for its Opteva ATMs after criminals installed malicious software on some machines in Russia. Diebold…