March 10, 2014
First Security Bank Issues Cab Breach Warning
05 March 2014 Chicago’s First American Bank recently issued an advisory telling customers not to use their payment cards in local taxis. “We have become aware of a data breach that...
March 10, 2014
Prepaid Programs Also Affected By Recent Breaches
05 March 2014 Various states are starting to pay close attention to the security of their card-based payment systems in the wake of recent data breaches. In a bit of...
March 10, 2014
To EMV Or Not To EMV
05 March 2014 Maybe not the question that our Congressional men and women are discussing today in DC, but one that’s on my mind, anyway, these days in spite of...
March 10, 2014
More Lawmakers Hear From Industry On Payments Security
06 March 2014 Various key players in payments and security got their chance on Wednesday to discuss with key lawmakers their views on how to shore up the security of...
March 05, 2014
TSYS Authorization Controls℠ Provides Issuers And Cardholders Greater Security
The recent rash of data breaches has many card issuers and their cardholders on edge, not knowing whether a compromised card could be used fraudulently and without their immediate...
March 04, 2014
Neiman Marcus: Up To 1 Million Cards Exposed
The CEO at luxury retailer Neiman Marcus released a statement this week noting that the company’s recent data breach affected as many as 1 million debit and credit cards, Bank...
March 04, 2014
Chase’s Prepaid Exit Affords No Simple Explanation
By Gloria Colgan, Managing Director, Market Platform Dynamics (@gkcolgan) Ah, the challenges of commercial prepaid. When JPMorgan Chase recently announced the potential sale of its government and commercial prepaid card...
February 05, 2014
WebLinc’s Hill: ‘Scary’ To Consider A Biometrics Breach
Hacker’s accessing improperly stored credit card data is one thing, but what if Target or Neiman Marcus had been storing customers’ biometric information instead? Merchants storing encrypted biometric data is...
January 22, 2014
Chase’s Prepaid Exit Affords No Simple Explanation
By Gloria Colgan, Managing Director, Market Platform Dynamics (@gkcolgan) Ah, the challenges of commercial prepaid. When JPMorgan Chase recently announced the potential sale of its government and commercial prepaid card...
