Discover how credit card encryption protects your information, reduces fraud risk, and enhances transaction security with EMV chip technology.

Discover how chip cards enhance security with embedded microchips. Learn their types, benefits, and how they work to secure ...

CHICAGO — The payment industry's focus on adding encryption at the point of sale to protect card data is counterproductive, MagTek Inc.'s top executive says. The terminal vendor has long advocated ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. In a new paper, the Smart Card Alliance says the flurry of ...

Abstract Initially, a key range variable is created by concatenating the card group value, card number and reference number for an encryption key to be generated. A hashing algorithm generates an ...

The Gemalto encryption key "heist" may be one of the biggest breaches of corporate data conducted by an intelligence agency to date. The attack, first reported by The Intercept, showed how the UK and ...

Criminals are going to steal payment card transaction data, but it won't matter if that data is devalued through encryption. The PCI Security Standards Council (SSC), which drafts many payment card ...

Heartland Payment Systems' chief executive, Robert Carr, has likened his company's massive data breach to the Tylenol experience when product contamination led to an overhaul of packaging safety. Carr ...

Germany company Certgate has released versions of an SD card that encrypt data on Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphones and e-mail on BlackBerry devices. The products, grouped under the name “Protector,” ...

CAMBRIDGE, UK — Exar Corporation announced the Hifn Express DS 4050 AMC solution, a family of advanced mezzanine cards delivering wire-speed, multi-gigabit security and compression for state of the ...