Mag-Stripe Credit Cards vs. Smart Cards
Smart credit cards, called so because they contain a chip, offer a safer alternative to the old-fashioned magnetic stripe-bearing cards....
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Credit Card 2.0 Hides Sensitive Data, Links Multiple Accounts
Card 2.0 hides six digits of a credit card number until it is activated with a PIN. The MultiAccount version links two separate accounts on one card....
Visa’s Account Data Recovery Process
The Account Data Compromise Recovery (ADCR) process enables issuers to recover card account data that have been linked to counterfeit fraud....
How Scammers Stole $10M from the Credit Cards of 1.3M Americans
Criminals steal $10M from 1.3M Americans through an elaborate scheme, involving more than 16 dummy corporations and more than 100 merchant accounts....
MasterCard’s Site Data Protection (SDP) Program
The Site Data Protection Program is designed to ensure that processors, merchants and service providers adequately protect account data against compromises....