Businesses should be EMV compliant to avoid being held responsible for credit card fraud. EMV compliance requires businesses to use EMV card readers to process credit card transactions. Your business ...

Credit and debit cards with EMV chips have been around for five years now, except at gas stations. That’s because it is a lot harder to change card readers in gas pumps — where it may require breaking ...

New technology could beat fraudsters, but you’ll still be vulnerable. — -- Those tiny new chips embedded in your credit cards promise to make it tougher for thieves to steal your data. But before ...

But you may be in for some surprises, and I say this from personal experience. I recently was with two childhood friends on our annual girlfriends getaway, which included shopping. I handed my ...

Despite being around since the 1990’s, consumers and merchants didn’t really have to deal with EMV cards until 2015. Short for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa, EMV technology uses a chip that’s embedded ...

Also, because EMV cards require PIN entry rather than a signature on a receipt to authorize POS transactions, losses from theft should be minimized. The PIN entered by the customer has to match the ...

The nationwide shift to EMV has begun. EMV -- which stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa -- is a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate ...

Unattended gas pumps would seem to be the perfect use case for EMV's anti-counterfeiting security, but many gas station owners are putting off their upgrades for as long as possible due to hardships ...