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Brits lose £120m to foreign card fraud
News In the meantime, Apacs recommends consumers sign up to secure online payment services such as Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode, which currently have around 25 million users in the UK. While the three years... [01 Oct 2008]
Online security services reach 25 million cards
News More than 25 million credit and debit cards have been signed up to secure online payment services such as Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode. According to Apacs, online retailers who use Verified by Visa and... [23 Sep 2008]
Meeting the PCI Standard
White Paper In order to combat this growing menace, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover and other major credit card providers have joined together to introduce a compliance standard - the Payment Card Industry... [31 May 2008]
PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information
White Paper In response, a federation of companies led by MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International set out to establish consistent data security measures for merchants, banks, and service providers. Fraud and... [13 May 2008]
Meeting and Exceeding PCI 1.1 Compliance Today
White Paper Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diner's Club, Discover, and JCB collaborated to create a new set of standards based on CISP (Cardholder Information Security Policy), and known as the Payment Card Industry Data... [13 May 2008]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News Mastercard launched such a card in September. Online banking fraud plummets London hottest for online card fraud Research found London was the hottest spot in the UK for distance... [17 Dec 2007]
Christmas spend online to hit £5bn
News There is also an Apacs website explaining how to sign up to security schemes such as Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode. The number of adults shopping online has more than doubled in the last five years to around... [30 Nov 2007]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News Another futuristic technology taking off is contactless payments, which received a boost this month with Mastercard and Maestro launching 'tap and go' payment cards in London. News that a successful pilot of lie detector... [28 Sep 2007]
London hottest for online card fraud
News The slow uptake of security such as Verified by Visa and Secure Mastercard is also being blamed. London is the UK hotspot for card not present fraud committed through transactions made online, on the... [05 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment We recently averted acceptance of fraudulent Visa and MasterCard payments by a person pretending to be a travel agent in Glasgow using stolen card details: we reported the crime to Glasgow Police offering to give the... [23 Aug 2007]
eBay cracks down on Romanian con artists
News The eBay team first took an education role - running road shows for law enforcers, and conducting a two-day course with the National Institute of Magistrates in Bucharest in conjunction with Visa and Mastercard. [28 Jun 2007]
Online fraud up but card fraud down
News The banking industry is working on the next generation of fraud prevention for card-not-present transactions - such as a handheld chip and PIN device developed by MasterCard and Visa, for use with... [15 Mar 2007]
Handheld credit card readers to cut fraud
News Apacs has developed the system, which uses a handheld card reader, from the global standard created by card companies MasterCard and Visa. A new payments system aimed at reducing 'card not present' fraud... [15 Feb 2007]
Home chip and PIN readers 'make shoppers feel secure'
News According to MasterCard-commissioned research, one in four (28 per cent) of consumers still worry about fraud when buying over the phone - and nearly a third (31 per cent) said that fear of... [15 Nov 2006]
Analysis: E-tailer credit card cover-up - California dreamin'?
Comment The next day we revealed that UK holders of MasterCard cards from Morgan Stanley, and its Goldfish credit card arm, had also been hit. MasterCard wouldn't say whether the confirmed breach was linked to... [10 May 2006]
