Known as the Citizen Patrol Unit, the group of some 30 civilian volunteers has been tasked with monitoring pay-at-the pump terminals throughout one community, looking for signs of tampered terminals or the installation of illegal skimming devices.
Phishy HTML pages get past spam filters, and users of RSA's SecurID two-factor authentication products come up with new ways to monitor threats and take preventive steps in the aftermath of a hacker attack against RSA.
All organizations - including federal agencies - must leverage technologies that exist today to secure online transaction systems for E-Gov. Until now, fragmented silos of security technologies have been used to protect individual applications, data, or users. In a world of Webconnected smart phones and interactive...
Australia's government agencies can learn a lot from the nation's banks, when it comes to risk management and protecting privacy, says Graham Ingram, General Manager of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team. "There are too many people in government organisations who are in denial [of risks]," he says.
Pay-at-the-pump card skimming is back, just in time for spring break; and Editorial Director Tom Field shares thoughts from Phoenix about BAI's recent Payments Connect conference.
"More and more consumers are using PIN debit at the pumps, so this makes for a rich harvest for the criminals," says John Buzzard of FICO's Card Alert Service.
Skimming remains the top threat to ATMs worldwide, but certain regions in Europe and Latin America are also seeing a rise in logical security breaches. Bottom line: ATMs are under attack.
Philip Andreae was there when EMV was born, and he plans to see the EMV evolution through, until it becomes a global standard embraced throughout the world.
The Smart Card Alliance's Vanderhoof says U.S. card issuers will likely rely on contactless mag-stripe technology to bridge a payments migration to EMV.
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