The crooks don’t steal your whole card, which you’d probably notice, but just the chip from it…
Tag Archives: Chip and PIN
Live from the Virus Bulletin conference 2015 [Chet Chat podcast 216.5]
Find out what the world’s threat protection experts talk about when you cloister them in a Prague hotel for three days!
Trump Hotel chain investigates potential payment card breach
Credit card hackers are said to have targeted a number of hotels, possibly as far back as February 2015.
SSCC 154: Fraud, viruses, patches and encryption (in that order!) [PODCAST]
Where does your country sit on the fraud list? Just how much can you trust SMSes on Android? Is Apple serious enough about iOS security? And will Google’s End-To-End email encryption plugin save the world? Find out with Chet and Duck in this week’s Chet Chat podcast…
Payment card survey – where does your country sit on the fraud list?
6,159 people were questioned by ACI Worldwide in 20 countries around the world, on a range of topics including incidents of fraud, risky behaviours which may put people at greater fraud risk, the issuing of replacement payment cards in response to data breaches, and satisfaction with banks’ security processes and handling of fraud incidents.
Breach at eBay, bugs in Chip-and-PIN, busts for Blackshades – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Will the breach at eBay beat Adobe for size? Is Chip and PIN really as safe as they say? How many countries took action busting malware crooks? All the answers in 60 Sec Security for 24 May 2014…
Chip-and-PIN should be “Chip-and-Skim,” say Cambridge card-cloners
Back in 2011, cryptographers at the University of Cambridge were approached by a man whose bank refused to refund a series of disputed transactions. So they set out to answer the question, “Is it reasonable to assume the infallibility of Chip-and-PIN transactions?”
Monday review – the hot 17 stories of the week
Catch up with everything we’ve written in the last seven days – it’s weekly roundup time.
Data-drained Target hurries to adopt chip-and-PIN cards
The US has been dragging its heels on the expensive, laborious task of swapping its payment infrastructure for the more secure chip-and-PIN security used abroad. Still smarting from recent data theft, Target’s now apparently leading the way, promising the new cards in 2015. 