Credit card transactions in the U.S. are often not encrypted, and credit card vendors, payment processors and retailers need to embrace an encryption standard to protect credit card numbers, the CEO ...

As a number of companies push various strategies for the end-to-end encryption of payment card data, the Smart Card Alliance weighed in Monday with what it considers a simpler alternative: wider use ...

Steven Elefant, CIO of Heartland Payment Systems, doesn't believe in software security. "There is no such thing as totally secure software anymore, and there probably never will be," he says.Elefant ...

New research that shows smart cards with encrypted RFID chips might not be as secure as previously thought is raising concerns in Boston, where the subway CharlieCards use just such technology. The ...

Abstract Initially, a key range variable is created by concatenating the card group value, card number and reference number for an encryption key to be generated. A hashing algorithm generates an ...

A SIM card encryption flaw that could put around 750 million mobile phones at risk of hacker intrusion has been discovered. Security Research Labs founder Karsten Nohl was able to use the encryption ...