Touted as a safer solution to magnetic stripe cards, it seems the chip-and-pin (or EMV) counterpart might not be as secure as we once thought. After retailers around the globe made the switch to the ...

A security vulnerability in the newest generation of ATMs can be exploited to make them give away tens of thousands of dollars in cash, despite chip and PIN systems being designed to prevent criminals ...

We’ve been told that EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) chip-equipped cards have an added layer of security, making them more secure and harder to clone than cards with only a magnetic stripe. But ...

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 ...

Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of topics from space missions to fax service reviews. At PCMag, much of my work focused on security and privacy services, as well as a video game or ...

A new study from Stevens Institute of Technology suggests your smartwatch might not be as secure as you’d think – and it might be giving away your ATM PIN code. According to the researchers, the ...

For years, security researchers and cybercriminals have hacked ATMs by using all possible avenues to their innards, from opening a front panel and sticking a thumb drive into a USB port to drilling a ...

A bank card as a means of payment appeared relatively recently, only about 50 years ago, but during this time it has won a lot of fans. The development of digital technologies served as an additional ...