Whether shopping online or over the phone, you must provide your credit card information to process the transaction. Apart from entering a card number and an expiration date, you probably will have to ...

Instead of a static three- or four-digit card verification value on the back or front of a payment card, dynamic CVV technology creates a new code periodically, making the card harder to steal. This ...

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS) are national standards from the Card Association and apply to all organizations anywhere in the country that process, transmit or store payment ...

Most credit-card and debit-card numbers are a sequence of 16 digits, with the final number in the sequence being a “checksum,” or a calculated number that was once useful in checking that a card ...