Obama has proclaimed October 2015 to be National Cyber Security Awareness Month. In conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance, Obama promoted events focused on cyber security and training cyber professionals. In this post we will gloss over EMV and...
One of the common misconceptions of implementing EMV enabled point of sale terminals is that by having EMV Chip & PIN, your business is Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant. This is not true. EMV and PCI Data Security Standards compliance are two independent entities that...
While U.S. merchants will only now in 2015 experience the liability shift of potential financial losses for not upgrading their terminals from magstripe –to EMV contact and contactless card enabled terminals, Visa has been incentivizing the move since 2011 through the innovative Visa TIP program. Considering...
The U.S. is the last developed country in the world to throw away the magstripe card and move to EMV. So begins the October 2015 liability shift. Starting this October, until the end of the year, an expected 6-8 hundred million EMV enabled credit and/or debit cards...
Samsung’s new mobile payments service is hot to trot with a unique feature that puts its competition behind the curve. But before we get into Samsung Pay, here’s a brief history lesson on the recent happenings in mobile payments. Apple made its first début to the mobile...
To protect consumers and reduce the costs of credit card processing fraud in the US, banks and credit card issuers have pushed the liability of fraudulent transactions to merchants who have out of date credit card processing technology. The deadline to update your credit card processing...