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 ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PAY), today announced that its VeriShield Protect end-to-end encryption solution for card payment security will be available for use with the EMV ...

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 ...

End-to-end encryption of cardholder account data during the transaction process is an imperfect solution to payment card fraud, but it's the most practical out there now for the U.S., a new report ...

Criminals are going to steal payment card transaction data, but it won't matter if that data is devalued through encryption. The PCI Security Standards Council (SSC), which drafts many payment card ...

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 ...

At the end of June, digital credit card transactions are getting a mandatory encryption upgrade. It's good news—but not if you have an old device, or depend on a retailer that hasn't completed the ...

Germany company Certgate has released versions of an SD card that encrypt data on Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphones and e-mail on BlackBerry devices. The products, grouped under the name “Protector,” ...

The U.S. Department of Education is rolling out desktop encryption software in a way that links the cryptographic process to employees’ government-issued Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart ...

On average, it takes businesses 287 days to find and contain a data breach, giving attackers over nine months to access and steal any records they want from the database. However, encrypting those ...