chip-and-pin apacs
"Antiquated" laws helping online fraudsters escape
News UK payments industry body Apacs has warned that data protection laws are hindering data sharing which could alert banks and retailers to fraud attempts. Riten Gohil of the fraud control division at... [09 Dec 2005]
Chip and PIN shifts fraud to online shops and banks
News Fraudsters snatched £58m using stolen credit cards online in the first half of this year, and plundered £14.5m from internet banking accounts, according to new figures from payments association Apacs. [08 Nov 2005]
Lloyds TSB tests anti-phishing hardware
News Apacs is working with the banking industry to develop a standard for card readers so that chip and PIN cards can be used to authenticate online transactions. Timms... [14 Oct 2005]
Chip and PIN credited for £36m drop in card fraud
News Payment industry body Apacs claims the drop in fraud is a result of the increasing use of chip and PIN technology to authenticate card payments on the high-street.... [10 Oct 2005]
Chip and PIN heads for cyberspace
News Apacs told silicon.com: "What we can say for certain is that when we first announced we were going down the chip and PIN route we said that if we didn't, card fraud for... [27 Sep 2005]
Half of Brits don't have all chip and PIN cards
News But a spokesperson for the Association of Payment and Clearing Systems (APACS) said chip and PIN was only designed to stop lost and... [19 Jul 2005]
Banks agree to increase web security
News Identity theft emails, known as phishing attacks, cost banks £12m last year, according to the Association of Payment and Clearing Systems (APACS). We are looking to get a UK standard for next month,"... [14 Apr 2005]
Phishing targets put up their guard
News APACS said this was due to fraudsters increasing their activity before chip and PIN was fully implemented.was the first year APACS recorded online... [24 Mar 2005]
Chip and PIN CCTV security fears dismissed
News The advice of the chip and PIN organisation, which is backed by card payments body APACS, is that retailers should take adequate steps to ensure the security of... [18 Mar 2005]
Phishing and key-logging Trojans cost UK banks £12m
News APACS put some of this down to thieves targeting the high volumes of new chip and PIN cards sent out in the post with fraud on cards stolen before cardholders received... [08 Mar 2005]
Could chip and PIN make society more violent?
News Last year, £400m was lost to card fraud, according to figures from payments body APACS. With the deadline for retailers to have chip and PIN having come... [01 Feb 2005]
'Shoulder-surfing' chip and PIN fraud fear dismissed
News Fraud fears over the new chip and PIN credit and debit cards have been dismissed by APACS, the card payment body behind the programme. From 1 January... [08 Nov 2004]
UK card fraud fall will mean rise in ID theft
News According to figures form APACS (Association for Payment Clearing Services), fraud fell by five per cent in 2003 - down from £426.4m in 2002 and £402.4m last year. Although banks and... [26 Aug 2004]
£400m card-fraud fight aided by intelligence systems
News APACS said the introduction of chip and PIN, which will replace signatures with a PIN number for verifying payments at checkouts, will help tackle fraud... [09 Mar 2004]
£1.1bn anti-fraud card scheme still on track
News The Chip and PIN project, which is backed by payment clearing body APACS, banks, card issuers and the British Retail Consortium, aims to issue 42... [26 Jan 2004]
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