As we head into the throes of the holiday season, you are preparing your business for the current influx of customers. You’re focused on inventory, logistics…
Category: Credit Card Security
Protect Your Customers During the Busy Season By Focusing on Secure Transactions
During this high-traffic season, businesses across the country will be more vulnerable than ever to hackers seeking to steal their customers’ financial information.
Study: Fraud Up Over 100% Since Last Labor Day
According to the latest AAA survey, “cheap gas prices are expected to boost Labor Day weekend travel as revelers pursue a last blast of summer fun before autumn…
Increasingly Cashless in an Age of “Big Hacks”
We never want our posts to be about hacks or data breaches two or more weeks running. But as most of us find out, when checking the climate-shifted weather…
Stealing Payment Card Data “Dead Easy;” “Quickchip” Comes to NorCal
It’s a yin/yang, up-and-down week in payment and security news. Though to be sure, the downside hasn’t been “overly” down, in terms of major breaches…
1 in 3 Hit By Hacks; U.S. Near Top Due to Slow EMV Adoption
A recent study by ACI Worldwide and the Aite Group has found that upwards of 30% of global consumers have been victims of some type card fraud in the past five years. Statistically then, this has happened…
Consumers Suing Lax Retailers, post-EMV. Plus: Baseball
In another sign of how the responsibility for data security — and the liability for same — is shifting, Payments Source reports that “merchants are facing consumer…
Scam Alert, Pt. II: How to Protect Against Skimmers
Last week, we mentioned a rash of phony invoices that are being sent by companies alleging to help with EMV upgrades, along with some preliminary advice on how…
Scam Alert Warning, Pt. I: Phony EMV “Invoices” and All-Too-Real Skimmers
Unfortunately, both this week and next, we have a couple of scams affecting merchants to warn you about, either trying to pry money out of merchants directly…
