The PIN pad-tampering attack Michaels Stores Inc. revealed earlier this month is far more widespread than it originally believed, affecting at least 90 payment terminals in stores in 20 states, the ...

Jeff Perrin tries to avoid germs at the grocery store. He slips on winter gloves, pull out his mobile-pay app and saddles up to the cash register. But then he has to slip those same gloves off so he ...

This story was updated at 1:00 p.m. EDT Wednesday. The arts-and-crafts chain Michaels Stores, which last week notified customers in the Chicago area that some of their in-store PIN pads had been ...

Security researchers are eager to poke holes in the chip-embedded credit and debit cards that have arrived in Americans’ mailboxes over the last year and a half. Although the cards have been in use ...

This spring’s settlement between the bank-owned card associations and retailers led by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been widely interpreted as a blow to the fortunes of so-called PIN-based debit, or debit ...

Targeting point-of-sale devices with malicious software is standard practice, as the wave of retail hackings over the last few years have shown. But targeting them with malicious hardware-- that ...

Skimming scams are everywhere, but according to Krebs on Security, there’s another component to them that’s easy to prevent—scammers recording your PIN number. “Very often the most clever component of ...

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