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whitepaper This effort resulted in the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), a multifaceted security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design, and other...
[13 May 2008]
whitepaper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a global standard governed by the major credit card companies. The standard comprises a set of directives for entities that handle credit cards, with the goal of reducing fraud.
[10 May 2008]
whitepaper As fraud and identity theft becomes more prevalent, businesses that record calls must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards to prevent recorded transactions from becoming a target.
[09 May 2008]
whitepaper The primary purpose of this standard is to protect credit card data by reducing fraud and theft. Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Club, Discover, and JCB collaborated to create a new set of standards based on CISP (Cardholder Information...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper This standard is a set of network security requirements agreed upon by five of the major credit card companies in an attempt to stem the growth of credit card fraud around the world and to give a common interpretation of what security is all about.
[06 May 2008]
News Her warning came as payment clearing industry body Apacs released figures showing that £532.2m was lost to card fraud in 2007 - a 25 per cent rise since 2006. Lemon warned that the internet was fuelling a rise in global credit card fraud and that...
[19 Mar 2008]
News Card fraud rose by 25 per cent in 2007, according to the latest figures from payment clearing industry body Apacs. Apacs said £535.2m was lost to card fraud overall last year, due mainly to stolen UK card details used in countries yet to upgrade to...
[12 Mar 2008]
whitepaper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), produced and governed by the major credit card companies, comprises directives to reduce fraud.Citrix Application FirewallTM, along with other Citrix solutions, provide compliance...
[08 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Major credit card companies are pushing hard to stop the financial fraud incidents that have affected numerous organizations and their consumers. Consequently, organizations that accept payment card transactions are duly bound to comply with PCI...
[06 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet Since Chip and PIN was launched Apacs, the UK payment industry body, says it has had a significant impact in reducing fraud. The banking industry is addressing the issue of card-not-present fraud by working on the next generation of fraud...
[13 Jun 2007]
News Total losses through card fraud fell by three per cent in 2006 - from £439.4m in 2005 to £428m - according to the UK payments industry body Apacs. The banking industry is working on the next generation of fraud prevention for card-not-present...
[15 Mar 2007]
News The banking industry is claiming chip and PIN as a success pointing to the statistics that show counterfeit card fraud has been cut by £60m - a drop of 24 per cent - in the first year since the system was introduced.
[27 Nov 2006]
Round-Up You see there has been a 55 per cent increase in online fraud and a 37 per cent hike in card fraud, according to stats released this week by payment industry body Apacs. The UK is suffering a fraud epidemic it would seem.
[10 Nov 2006]
News They say while more than 150 chip and PIN transactions are processed every second counterfeit card fraud in 2005 was cut by nearly £60m - a drop of 24 per cent compared to 2004. And last year internet, phone and mail-order transactions - and card...
[15 Aug 2006]
whitepaper Other regions of the world are replacing magnetic stripe payment cards to address this rising tide of fraud. The real cost of ATM fraud in the US is approaching $200 million a year and rapidly increasing, despite industry efforts to improve...
[30 Jun 2006]
News He said: "This introduces a whole new area for fraud - why steal something when you only have to stand within reader distance of someone's wallet or purse? MasterCard is currently pushing its contactless payment product, One Smart PayPass.
[10 Feb 2006]
News But few burger fans will have realised that the contactless payment card they used to pay for their lunch is going to shake up the market over the next few years. Carpreau said: "With fraud on cards there are two major risks.
[11 Oct 2005]
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. Card fraud has fallen by £36m in the first six months of this year following the...
[10 Oct 2005]
News Next month it will release figures for card fraud covering January to June this year, which will be the first since the chip and PIN deadline passed. Apacs told silicon.com: "What we can say for certain is that when we first announced we were going...
[27 Sep 2005]
Leader According to the industry prophet Gartner, PayPal is in a superior position to banks and card suppliers because it can offer payment methods cheaper than the companies it left behind some years ago. If banks were to move their expertise in...
[15 Sep 2005]
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