All Online security articles – Page 8
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US Senate backs cap on debit card fees paid by retailers
The US Senate has voted in favour of including a cap on debit card fees in the financial services reform bill.
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AnalysisEPoS: And your point is?
As retailers seek to improve the experience in their stores, what is most important to them when they are choosing a new EPoS system, asks Joanna Perry
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AnalysisPCIDSS confusion continues
Variations of the Payment Card Data Security Standard have been in place for several years, but many retailers still feel they don’t understand what exactly is required of them to comply with it, writes Alison Clements
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OpinionGuiding the guidelines
Two recent examples of draft guidelines relating to ecommerce show why retailers must be prepared to lobby if they don’t want to be stuck with unworkable rules.
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OpinionInterchange fees: A done deal?
The news that Visa Europe has offered to reduce interchange fees on debit cards has yet to convince the European Commission that it should end antitrust proceedings.
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NewsBT Retail Week Technology Awards shortlist revealed
The 60-strong shortlist for this year’s BT Retail Week Technology Awards has been announced.
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NewsBT Expedite to headline sponsor Retail Week's technology awards
BT Expedite has signed up as the headline sponsor of Retail Week’s technology awards.
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NewsArgos suffers customer data security breach
Argos has acted to improve online shoppers’ security after it emerged an undisclosed number of customers’ credit card details could have been made vulnerable to fraud.
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OpinionNo red card for CNP fraud
After years of rising card-not-present fraud, which retailers have had to shoulder, is technology finally winning the battle?
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Retailer screening leads to decrease in card-not-present fraud
Phone, internet and mail order fraud has fallen by 19% to £266.4m from 2008 to 2009, according to new figures from the UK Cards Association.
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OpinionBanks versus boffins
The banks need to think carefully about how they deal with security flaws in Chip and PIN technology if they are to maintain the trust of merchants.
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Chip and PIN flaw can lead to fraud
Cambridge University researchers have found a flaw in the Chip and PIN system that could open the door to fraud.
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NewsCompliance with PCIDSS among retailers jumps
There has been a big leap in the number of UK retailers that are compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS) in the past year.
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NewsMorrisons rolls out payment system
Grocer Morrisons has begun rolling out a new payment processing system as part of its store systems replacement project.
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Liverpool contactless payment push begins
Boots, Timpsons and Max Spielmann are all taking part in MasterCard’s initiative to drive adoption of its contactless payment technology in Liverpool.
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OpinionConsumers go upwardly mobile
Retailers who believe that m-commerce is a long way off should think again with the news that there will be two mobile phone subscriptions for every three people in the world by the end of this year.The announcement, from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), that there will be 4.6 billion ...
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NewsMarks & Spencer to tackle fraud at its checkouts
Marks & Spencer will roll out a fraud detection system across all its stores before the end of the year.
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OpinionRetail surgery: Preventing ‘card not present’ fraud
We have noticed a marked surge in ‘card not present’ fraud. What are the key things we should be doing to prevent this?
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NewsTesco upgrades global IT security
Tesco has standardised its global IT security practices with the deployment of threat management and analysis systems from Fortinet.
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NewsPoundland trials contactless payments
Poundland is trialling contactless payment technology at two of its London stores.