payment cards
Parking in the West End goes contactless
News Drivers with contactless bank cards will soon be able to use them to pay for their parking. From next year, parking meters in the West End will accept contactless payments from motorists with wave and pay functionality... [29 Oct 2009]
Get the facts about credit card security and PCI compliance
White Paper No matter what size your business is or what industry you work in, if you accept credit cards, you must adhere to the safeguards mandated by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standardreferred to... [21 Oct 2009]
Beyond PCI Checklists: Securing Cardholder Data With Enhanced File Integrity Monitoring
White Paper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to any organization that accepts stores or processes payment cards of any type and is a comprehensive checklist of... [05 Oct 2009]
Follett Protects Customer Data and Complies With PCI DSS With Thales
White Paper Since it began operating stores and taking credit cards, FHEG has taken protecting its customers' privacy seriously. To protect customer data the company has a longstanding practice of encrypting customer... [19 Sep 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Gonzalez and his alleged co-conspirators sold the numbers to others and encoded the data onto magnetic stripes of blank cards and used the new cards to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars at a time... [14 Sep 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 cards will have the... [12 Aug 2009]
Risk, Readiness and Redundancy: PCI Compliance Automation With Symantec Control Compliance Suite
White Paper Also in 2004, MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, Diner's Club and JCB launched the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) for all merchants and service providers that handle, transmit, store... [05 Aug 2009]
O2, NatWest cash in with prepay Visa cards
News If the credit crunch has killed the credit card O2, reckons it has the answer: the mobile operator has announced a move into financial services with the launch of two pre-payment Visa cards in... [16 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 Payment Card Industry... [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 Payment Card Industry... [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... [13 Jul 2009]
Protecting Cardholder Information: The Elusive Goal
White Paper The retail environment is a tempting target for criminals' intent on capturing cardholder information to create counterfeit payment cards or commit other fraudulent acts. While growing numbers of... [12 Jul 2009]
The Credit Industry Fights Back Against Identity Thieves With Tough Compliance Standards for Merchants
White Paper It is estimated that the average American family has approximately nineteen payment cards, including bank credit cards, retail cards and debit cards.... [12 Jul 2009]
The Impact of Wireless LAN Technology on Compliance to the PCI Data Security Standard
White Paper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard was created in 2004 to help consumers maintain confidence in the privacy of their personal data and transactions when using credit cards. Compliance... [12 Jul 2009]