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RSS chipChip and PIN on 98 per cent of UK tills
News Chip and PIN has taken hold in UK shops with 98 per cent of all tills hosting the new tech one year on from the official change-over date. More than 185 chip and PIN transactions take place every second,... [15 Feb 2007]
Chip manufacturers are almost giving them away
News Prices in the semiconductor market have sunk so low that, if a recent study is to be believed, memory chip firms are making a loss on each one they sell. One of the most common chips in desktop machines, a SDRAM... [08 Aug 2001]
Chip and PIN security warning for retailers
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... [06 Sep 2007]
Chip sales plummet
News Global chip sales tailed off dramatically in May. Double-digit declines in sales were seen in all the major chip-buying territories - the Americas, Europe, Japan and Asia. According to the Semiconductor... [03 Jul 2001]
Chip and PIN credited for £36m drop in card fraud
News Card fraud has fallen by £36m in the first six months of this year following the introduction of the new chip and PIN system, according to the latest official figures. Payment industry body Apacs claims the drop in fraud... [10 Oct 2005]
Chip and PIN hack attack demoed
News Two Cambridge researchers have devised a relay attack with a hacked chip and PIN terminal that could enable attackers to bypass bank card security measures. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the Cambridge... [06 Feb 2007]
Chip and PIN heads for cyberspace
News Chip and PIN debit and credit cards have all but conquered the high street and will soon be taking on internet fraudsters. There are around 140 million payment cards in circulation in the UK and 107 million are now... [27 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN
Cheat Sheet In 2006 the UK migrated retail and banking transactions to chip and PIN from the standard magnetic strip technology. Chip and PIN cards look the same as standard magnetic-strip cards, but inside the... [13 Jun 2007]
Chip breakthrough is a gene genie
News STMicroelectronics has created a prototype of a chip that, if released commercially, could substantially cut the costs for scanning for genetic diseases. The chip, called a MEMS (microelectromechanical... [06 Nov 2002]
Leader: Chip and PIN won't solve the fraud problem
Leader It's great news that chip and PIN is stopping fraud on the high street, as shown by the latest figures. Of course it makes sense for UK banks to wait until we have a standard based on chip and PIN so... [08 Nov 2005]
Chip sales to grow until 2006
News Worldwide chip sales are expected to rise 16.7 per cent in 2003, largely driven by an anticipated upturn in business spending, according to a report released on Tuesday by US analysts In-Stat/MDR. Global... [30 Apr 2003]
Chip and PIN takes off with BA
News British Airways has rolled out chip and PIN pads on its entire fleet of 850 planes. BA is the first UK airline to achieve 'end to end' chip and PIN accreditation with the banks - which means every part... [05 Feb 2007]
Chip and PIN CCTV security fears dismissed
News Leading UK retailers have dismissed the threat that CCTV cameras pose to the security of the new chip and PIN bank card payment system. The security issue has been raised by customers concerned that existing in-store... [18 Mar 2005]
Chip and PIN rollout '95 per cent complete'
News Chip and PIN has become a familiar fixture when paying for goods at most UK high-street retail outlets but one in 20 point-of-sale tills has yet to be upgraded There are around 900,000 face-to-face point-of-sale... [27 Nov 2006]
Chip and PIN and the PCI Data Security Standard
White Paper Chip and PIN is a British government-backed initiative to implement the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) standard for credit cards with a built-in Integrated Circuit (IC), also known as IC Cards or... [02 Sep 2009]
