Stax

MARCH 14, 2024

EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. The EMV standard has now become a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

According to TechCrunch , devices called “shimmers” can now read your card number and possibly access your card’s chip and obtain your PIN number. Shimmers are actually not new — the security breach has been around since 2015, but many assumed cards equipped with chips were immune to it.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. EMV chip card technology had a good two decades or so, beginning in the mid-’90s. Apple Pay caught up in 2014; in 2015, the wearables market made everyone aware of the tap’s potential.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Just as payment methods are varied, so too are the ways that people pay, and whether, given a certain locale, they prefer paper (cash) over plastic (via mag stripe or chip card), or mobile over interactions with the cashier — these differences color fraud as well. Fraud varies country to country, region to region.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Request Quote Upgrade Your Legacy Equipment for Mobile Payments The world’s foremost mobile phone manufacturers, Apple and Samsung started to foster the use of mobile payments as early as 2014 and 2015, respectively. Google was a little late to the party, but it also followed with its method called Google Pay in 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

So, we all know this – chip cards were not going to fix the problem of fraud at the POS. And NCR researchers at the Black Hat conference this week confirmed that story when they presented a way for the bad guys to commit fraud using chip cards. Depends on who you ask. Unencrypted POS Data. million.

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FICO

MARCH 29, 2017

The number of hacked card readers at U.S. This new data follows a 546 percent increase in compromised ATMs from 2014 to 2015. The rest took place at bank ATMs or point-of-sale (POS) devices, such as card payment machines at retailers. The average number of cards affected by a single compromise was cut in half.

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