debit cards
RSS debit cardsParking in the West End goes contactless
News From next year, parking meters in the West End will accept contactless payments from motorists with wave and pay functionality built into their debit or credit cards. Card issuers MasterCard and Visa... [29 Oct 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Albert Gonzalez, a former federal government informant and the alleged ringleader of one of the largest known identity theft cases in US history, pleaded guilty in Boston to 19 counts of conspiracy, computer fraud, wire fraud, access... [14 Sep 2009]
All change please: Your train ticket will never be the same again
News NFC bank cards are already in circulation - Barclays expects to have all of its debit cards in circulation equipped with NFC by 2011 - but mobile phones with the functionality are... [20 Aug 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain, and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and... [18 Aug 2009]
Kerching! London Poundland stores pilot contactless payments
News A degree of momentum has been building recently, however, with Barclays pledging to replace its entire fleet of cards with contactless-enabled equivalents and estimating all its debit... [12 Aug 2009]
PayPal goes plastic with debit cards aimed at students - and their parents
News Called Student Accounts, it centres on the use of a special PayPal-branded Mastercard debit card that's tied to a parent's PayPal accounts. Some of the perks include no overdraft fees and the use of a... [12 Aug 2009]
PCI Wireless Compliance Demystified Best Practices for Retail
White Paper Attackers have been able to access sensitive information such as credit/debit cards resulting in brand damage, financial/regulatory liabilities and retail business disruption. The introduction of... [14 Jul 2009]
PCI Wireless Compliance Demystified: Best Practices for Retail
White Paper Attackers have been able to access sensitive information such as credit/debit cards resulting in brand damage, financial/regulatory liabilities and retail business disruption. The introduction of... [14 Jul 2009]
Wi-Fi Client Device Security and Compliance With PCI DSS
White Paper Wi-Fi Client Device Security and Compliance With PCI DSS is every retailer's nightmare: An attacker exploits weak network security at a retail store to steal information from customers' payment cards (credit... [13 Jul 2009]
Security for the Retail Industry
White Paper Companies accepting credit or debit cards in exchange for goods or services must already be compliant with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) requirements. Any merchant that does... [13 Jul 2009]
Security Is in the Air: Complying With the PCI DSS V1.2 Standard
White Paper The PCI DSS v1.2 standard defines mandatory requirements that must be met by all organizations that accept credit and debit cards. The standard's strict wireless LAN security requirements impact... [30 Jun 2009]
Contactless payments hamstrung by battle for hearts and minds
News Despite an increasing number of payment cards issued with contactless functionality - Barclays recently pledged to have all of its debit cards contactless by 2011 - the technology... [24 Jun 2009]
Barclaycard going for contactless Gold
News Barclaycard launched its first contactless card in 2007 and has pledged to have all of its debit cards equipped with contactless tech by 2011. According to Barclaycard, around two million of its... [16 Jun 2009]
IT "glitch" brings down Tesco tills
News Tesco said that all types of payments, including credit and debit cards and cash via normal tills, had been affected. Supermarket chain Tesco has been unable to take money at a number of its stores... [11 May 2009]
Card Management Systems: Change on the Cards
White Paper Card Management Systems (CMS) are essentially the core systems for credit and debit card processing. The world of card processing has been undergoing a rapid change in recent years. The development of new standards and... [22 Apr 2009]
