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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Easily the most sophisticated skimming devices made for hacking terminals at retail self-checkout lanes are a new breed of PIN pad overlay combined with a flexible, paper-thin device that fits inside ...

NEW YORK – Barnes & Noble Inc. said Tuesday that devices used by customers to swipe credit and debit cards have been tampered with in 63 of its stores in nine states. The company warned customers to ...

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 ...

Reading your credit card’s data that is stored in the magnetic strip part using illegal means is called credit card skimming. There are different types of devices available in the market for this ...

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 ...

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 ...