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News Card issuers MasterCard and Visa already offer cards with wave and pay functionality included, while Barclays, an enthusiastic proponent of the tech, estimates all of its debit cards... [29 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News But Financial Fraud Action UK's head of fraud control Katy Worobec said in a statement: "Whilst industry online security initiatives such as Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode may be making their presence felt,... [07 Oct 2009]
Croatian Banks Make Fraud Virtually Impossible by Securing Transactions and User Identities With Thales nCipher HSMs
White Paper Both use Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to secure communication to the Visa and MasterCard environments and to digitally sign transactions. Additionally, PBZ uses HSMs to securely issue MasterCard CAP... [19 Sep 2009]
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... [02 Sep 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]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News The IPS and IBM have also signed a deal for the company to supply a replacement for the UK Border Agency's Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System, which holds visa applicants' biometrics. IBM's contract to supply... [13 Jul 2009]
Security for the Retail Industry
White Paper Any merchant that does not comply with PCI DSS is at risk of extensive fines from Visa and other card brand companies. Companies accepting credit or debit cards in exchange for goods or services must... [12 Jul 2009]
Guide to PCI Application Security Compliance for Merchants and Service Providers
White Paper Triggered by a number of security breaches and concerns over the abuse and theft of credit card data, major credit card companies including American Express, Discover, JCB, Master Card and Visa formed the PCI Security... [20 Jun 2009]
Financial Enterprise Revamps Call Centers for Operational Efficiency
White Paper The financial services enterprise is a top ten issuer of MasterCard and Visa credit cards in the United States. The call centers were experiencing difficulty handling the approximate 1.3 million calls... [30 May 2009]
Olympics tickets to double as Tube tickets, cash?
News Visa has already announced that it hopes large areas of the UK will have shops with readers for contactless payWave cards by the time the Olympics take place in 2012 and aims to have six million... [29 May 2009]
Deloitte banking on PIN sharp security
News Up to 1,000 staff at Deloitte and Visa will be given new Barclaycard Corporate Visa cards, revealed by silicon.com last year, which generate one-time-use passcodes that allow remote... [13 May 2009]
Chip and PIN for ID cards: Not such a sharp idea?
News It stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, the three payment groups that originally developed the standard. The government has proposed adding chip and PIN capabilities to ID cards but questions remain... [15 Apr 2009]
Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-Enabled Credit Cards
White Paper According to Visa USA, "This has been the fastest acceptance of new payment technology in the history of the industry" (Bray, 2006). An increasing number of credit cards now contain a tiny wireless... [15 Apr 2009]
£650m ID card biometrics: IBM and CSC win contracts
News On Tuesday, the Home Office announced that IBM had won a £265m contract to build and run the UK Border Agency database of fingerprints and facial images taken for passports and visa applications, called the National... [08 Apr 2009]
