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 […]
October 3, 2017
We are going to take you back in time today. Back to the days before the Internet, before those nice POS terminals that you as a merchant use today. Back to the good ol’ days. Some of you reading this […]
September 26, 2017
Gas station POS terminals are some of the most lucrative sources of stolen credit card information for thieves. It is considered to be low hanging fruit by security experts. Not only are they plentiful and in most cases open 24 […]
September 19, 2017
A criminal steals your wallet and gets a hold of your credit card. They may want to go on a spending spree or clone your card so they can use it later. There is supposed to be one security measure […]
September 12, 2017
The new EMV chip cards are helping to fight credit card fraud but not all is perfect. One of the top complaints users have is the alarm that the POS terminal makes when a transaction is complete. Why does it […]
September 5, 2017
Big Brother is in the news. It is common knowledge that the government has spied on all of us and probably knows more about us than we do. Did you know that companies are trying to do the same? You […]
August 29, 2017
There is always speculation about what the future holds for us. It is fascinating to dream about having a flying car or being able to teleport to another point on the planet in mere seconds. What does the future hold […]
August 22, 2017
What do you think the world will look like in 10,20 even 50 years. Granted that most of us reading this will get to find out it is intriguing to dream what our world will look like. Will we recognize […]
August 15, 2017
When international tensions begin to boil the consequences can be widespread. Economic panics can ensue, certain industries can go boom or bust and consumer bubbles can burst. For the secretive nation of North Korea there could be another casualty. There […]