After building a USB magnetic stripe reader, [David Cranor] has found a way to fool a magnetic stripe reader using a hand-wound electromagnet and an iPod. The data on a card is read and stored on a ...

Mobile payments company Square is known for its signature glossy white credit card readers that plug into iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Credit cards in the U.S. will have embedded computer chips ...

Chip cards are less vulnerable to skimming than magnetic stripe cards, but they aren’t completely safe. Crooks can still capture your card information from a chip card using a technique called ...

Thursday marks an important milestone for the shift to new, smarter credit and debit cards designed to better protect against fraud and bring American card users in line with much of the ...

Coalfire Systems, a qualified security assessor for PCI issues, has deemed Heartland Payment Systems Inc.’s E3 magnetic stripe card reader wedge as valid to minimize certain payment security ...

The RF IDeas pcSwipe intelligent magnetic stripe card reader is a solution for end-users wanting to leverage their existing base of magnetic stripe card-carrying personnel. The reader is compatible ...

A proclamation released by President Obama on September 30th has given October of 2015 the distinction of being National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which involves a month-long series of outreach ...