NY legislator intros bill to mandate chip cards - but not readers

March 25, 2014

New York State Senator Martin J. Golden held a press conference last Friday to announce legislation he is sponsoring that would require card issuers to provide…

'Mitigate fraud, or else,' CBN says

March 21, 2014

The Central Bank of Nigeria has advised the nation's retail FIs that they must implement measures to mitigate a rising tide of ATM fraud or face sanctions.

FIS expands security service portfolio through acquisitions

March 21, 2014

Banking and payments technology provider FIS has acquired ICS Risk Advisors and Memento Inc., two firms in the risk, fraud and compliance market. In a news…

Thieves tunnel to Tesco ATM, take $100K in cash

March 20, 2014

It's a dirty job for a crook, but some might consider it a good few months' work, given a haul of some 60,000 pounds ($99,031).

'Insiders Guide' delivers in-depth detail on PCI DSS 3.0 updates

March 20, 2014

The PCI Security Standards Council has announced a new online training resource, "An Insider's Guide to PCI DSS 3.0." The guide focuses on the intent…

More Americans using cash to avoid data theft

March 20, 2014

Sixty percent of adults who are aware of data breaches such as those at Target and Neiman Marcus say merchants are responsible for preventing such incidents in…

Awesome: California gets its first Bitcoin ATM

March 20, 2014

It's probably about time Silicon Valley got its own Bitcoin ATM. Today, California's first will debut at the 500 Startups' Bitcoinferance in Mountain View…

UK building society rolls Windows 7, contactless into one upgrade

March 20, 2014

NCR Corp. has announced that it will assist Cumberland Building Society in projects to upgrade its NCR ATMs to Windows 7 and implement a contactless card…

How worried should deployers be about end of XP support?

by Dominic Hirsch — manager, Retail Banking Research

Virtually all ATMs around the world use a Windows operating system, and many still use Windows XP. Microsoft released XP in October 2001 and is ending free…

Students get cardless cash via Google Glass

March 19, 2014

German university students have seen the future of cardless cash withdrawal at the ATM. And they've seen it through Google Glass, according to a news release…

Alliance releases strong authentication spec for 'natural' security

March 18, 2014

The Natural Security Alliance has released specifications for its world's-first strong authentication standard, the organization has announced. The standard…

ICard4 packs a PC into a payments card

March 17, 2014

Taiwanese display card developer SmartDisplayer Technology Co. Ltd. has announced its next-generation smart card — iCard4. The card secures both card-present…

EMV has a long way to go

by Jim Ghiglieri — Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, SHAZAM

The looming October 2015 liability shift for mag-stripe cards used on EMV terminals, combined with recent media buzz regarding the U.S. payments industry's…

7 laptop security tips for travelers

by Robert Siciliano — speaker, IDTheftSecurity.com

A laptop has become standard equipment for the business traveler. But the great convenience of having masses of information at your fingertips while on the…

Report says Target knew about the data breach, but did nothing

The retailer had a working anti-malware system in place before the breach, but it was ignored.

Study: US market for card fraud detection software set to fire up

March 13, 2014

A new study from Mercator Advisory Group examines how changing market dynamics are shaping fraud detection software solutions, reviews leading products, and…

PCI SSC and ATMIA issue joint statement on the end of XP

With time running out for Windows XP support, industry organizations offer information and resources.

3 irrefutable reasons why ISOs must up their game against fraud

by atm Atom — blogger, atmatom

Heartland, Target, Neiman Marcus; Congressional hearings, NRF vs. banks; liability shift deadlines, PCI, processing AIDs – it's enough to make your head spin.

A 'Bit o' Coin' and a 'Look at me!' ATM

by Richard Buckle — Founder and CEO, Pyalla Technologies, LLC

This past week I attended a dinner put on by a local investment company — from what I could tell, the audience was a small cross-section of Denver's…

EMVCo publishes framework for payment tokenization spec

March 11, 2014

EMVCo has announced the release of "The EMV Payment Tokenization Specification — Technical Framework v1.0," a document designed to allow payments industry…