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News The system - supplied by Fidelity National Information services, IBM, Smart Technology solutions and VeriFone - is an integrated mobile chip and PIN payments system that allows the company to channel all payments from its Beefeater, Brewers Fayre...
[07 May 2008]
News The network replaces in part the retailer's existing system provided by Prologic, which was originally brought in to handle Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) data, one of the components needed to receive Chip and PIN payments.
[02 Apr 2008]
News 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 chip and PIN - a 77 per cent rise on the year before.silicon.com Retail & Leisure
[12 Mar 2008]
News Researchers from Cambridge University have succeeded in capturing both PIN numbers and card details from supposedly tamper-proof PIN terminals. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, overseen by Professor Ross Anderson, managed to hack two widely used PIN...
[27 Feb 2008]
News Shoppers across the UK trying to use their HSBC Maestro debit cards were unable to withdraw cash from ATMs or had their chip and PIN cards rejected by retailers. Problems began at 13:00(GMT) on Saturday 23 February and continued through the peak...
[25 Feb 2008]
News Wi-fi also supports the chip and PIN pads used by staff in the restaurants at the store, which was founded in 1707 and is the oldest department store in London. The fixed and wireless data network, supplied by Alfred McAlpine - IT Services has been...
[19 Nov 2007]
News Apacs said the introduction of chip and PIN has made it harder for criminals to commit card fraud in the UK, forcing them to go abroad where the tech is not in place. But Apacs predicts this effect will lessen as more countries roll out chip and...
[04 Oct 2007]
News The company added that it is looking at using strong authentication, such as chip and PIN, for services that require a higher level of security - such as accessing sensitive information or for financial transactions.
[03 Oct 2007]
News Retailers are being warned to beef up chip and PIN security to prevent fraudsters stealing card and PIN details by bugging terminals or 'shoulder-surfing' other customers. The UK payments association Apacs has produced the Transactions with your...
[06 Sep 2007]
News Find out all about chip and PIN, Itil, wi-fi and more in our Cheat Sheets. Rocketing IT-related electricity costs are causing concern among businesses as they eat an increasing proportion of facilities and tech budgets.
[15 Aug 2007]
News The system builds on an existing Epos upgrade which was driven by the migration to chip and PIN payment methods in 2006. At the time the majority of the retail sector was making the move to chip and PIN, it was often suggested that the new systems...
[10 Aug 2007]
News Find out all about Chip and PIN, Itil, wi-fi and more in our Cheat Sheets. The worm, named SB/Badbunny-A, affects OpenOffice users on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. The impact on businesses and consumers has so far been minimal, thanks to coding...
[14 Jun 2007]
News Find out all about Chip and PIN, Itil, wi-fi and more in our Cheat Sheets. UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's analogue television signals are phased out, the European commissioner for information society and media has proposed.
[14 Jun 2007]
News Cunnington said the recent introduction of chip and PIN payments was another big change for debit card transactions. And 20 years later, around 68 million debit cards are in circulation in the UK. The next stage in the debit card's development is...
[01 Jun 2007]
News Barclays is the first organisation in the UK to roll out chip and PIN devices to more than half a million online banking customers, and it already offers an SMS text-alert payment confirmation system to combat potential fraud.
[23 May 2007]
News The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is dishing out chip and PIN devices to its online banking customers. The chip and PIN card readers will be sent to customers free of charge and people will start receiving the devices this week.
[03 May 2007]
News Incidents of face-to-face credit and debit card fraud have tumbled by 67 per cent since the introduction of the chip and PIN standard 24 months ago. According to Apacs cards and fraud control manager of operations, Martin Lewis, and head of cards...
[02 May 2007]
News Just over £200m of that new investment went into the in-store IT infrastructure, which includes a new pharmacy system that will link to the NHS' e-prescription service, 15,000 new touchscreen tills to replace the 17-year-old ones in the shops...
[25 Apr 2007]
News With contactless card reader tech currently costing around $100 per unit, when this is added to the cost of integrating the devices into chip and PIN systems large retailers have another disincentive to accept contactless.
[24 Apr 2007]
News Clinton Cards is about to roll out a chip and PIN electronic point of sale (Epos) system costing just under £3m to its store estate. The retailer forecasts the system will reduce costs by £1m across third-party maintenance and support contracts and...
[20 Apr 2007]
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