OMNIKEY, a smart card reader manufacturer, chose CeBIT to debut a new USB high-speed smart card reader that features a keypad for secure PIN entry and PIN change operations and a two-line display that ...

Security researchers are eager to poke holes in the chip-embedded credit and debit cards that have arrived in Americans’ mailboxes over the last year and a half. Although the cards have been in use ...

Shoppers who made purchases recently at a 7-Eleven store in Redlands should check their debit or credit card accounts after the store’s owner discovered a bogus pin pad card reader apparently designed ...

BLACK HAT USA—Las Vegas—The manner in which many PIN pads used by consumers to pay for purchases and communicate with point-of-sale systems make it very easy for attackers to steal payment card data, ...

Merchants looking to collect credit card payments on the go have a new option from Payleven, which has launched its "Chip and PIN" card reader at Apple's retail and online stores in Europe. Payleven ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - In South Carolina, skimmers have been found at gas station pumps, ATM’s, retail and grocery stores. Skimmers are devices that criminals attach to point of sales or card readers ...

Many of the large payment card breaches that hit retail and hospitality businesses in recent years were the result of attackers infecting point-of-sale systems with memory-scraping malware. But there ...

Barnes & Noble Wednesday confirmed that point-of-sale systems in 63 of its stores had been physically hacked as part of what it described as "a sophisticated criminal effort to steal credit and debit ...

Tomorrow is the deadline that Visa and MasterCard have set for banks and retailers across the US to roll out a new system for more secure bank cards with microchips embedded in them. Over the last few ...

A convenience store clerk turns their back to grab a pack of cigarettes — that's all the time a scammer needs to slip a fake PIN pad or card terminal onto the shop's credit card reader. "No, wrong ...