December 29, 2017
With the holidays here it is time to be a little more light hearted. Here is some fun ATM trivia! There is approximately 1 ATM for every 3,000 people in the world. ATMs are found most commonly in the United […]
December 19, 2017
We’ve all heard MasterCard’s slogan that there are some things money can’t buy and for everything else there’s MasterCard. That’s not quite true. There are a handful of things that a person cannot use a credit card to buy, though […]
December 12, 2017
Retro is in style, what is old is new and is cool again. Just like with fashion and cars the retro fad is coming back with credit card thieves as well. One of the most dangerous ways to steal a […]
December 5, 2017
Today we take ATM’s for granted. Fifty years ago that was not quite so. Today there are around three and a half million ATMs worldwide and they are found in nearly every nation in the world. In many cases for […]
November 28, 2017
Compared to the other major credit card companies Discover is a youngster. In many ways it is the credit card that is always forgotten as it is not accepted everywhere and is not available to the average person. In the […]
November 21, 2017
Skimming in the United States has taken another leap forward as the criminals attempt to stay one step ahead of law enforcement and vigilant merchants. Skimming is a lucrative enterprise for many thieves who take the stolen information and sell […]
November 14, 2017
ATM skimmers continue to get more sophisticated. This past summer a rash of skimmers were found in Oklahoma that incorporated the usual skimming technology with another link in the chain. These new skimmers had an antenna attached and would transmit […]
November 7, 2017
Commerce exists through the exchange of good and services for other goods and services. There was a time when merchants would exchange animals for flour, such was a lack of any form of currency. That changed in the Iron Age […]
October 31, 2017
The magnetic strip on your credit card is 50 year old technology. It is vulnerable to skimming and with the introduction of the EMV chip it is now obsolete. Now with any major technological transition there are bound to be […]
October 24, 2017
Biometrics is a term that is thrown around commonly when discussing credit card security and where the future of credit cards are heading. We’ve been told that it will be completely secure and will hit credit card fraudsters hard. But […]
October 17, 2017
As most of you are aware when the changeover was made to the new EMV cards in 2015 the United States did not go all the way. Rather than upgrading our nation’s credit cards to Chip-and-PIN we went half way […]
October 10, 2017
Every business that accepts a credit card has a POS terminal. You can’t really accept a card without one nowadays anyway. Much of our modern technology that we know today has its roots in the 1970s and 1980s and the […]