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Since Google announced support for host card emulation (HCE) in Android KitKat 4.4 last year, the industry has been divided.

Underwriters Laboratories has been testing physical products for safety for more than 100 years, and the company has joined the payments industry at an opportune time.

United Parcel Service Inc. said a breach of computer security at some of its UPS Store retail outlets may have exposed customers’ personal and payment data this year.

The Backoff malware, which targets point of sale systems and has hit hundreds of businesses, may catalyze adoption of EMV "chip and PIN" cards and two-factor authentication as merchants look for ways to soften the impact of the next attack.

The terminal maker Ingenico, payment processor FreedomPay and technology distributor ScanSource are teaming up to provide a point-to-point encryption system to North America with support for EMV-chip card payments.

Card-not-present merchants are battling increasingly frequent friendly fraud. That type of fraud–the “I don’t recognize” or “I didn’t do it” dispute–occurs when a cardholder makes a purchase, receives the goods or services and initiates a chargeback on the order claiming he or she did not authorize the transaction.

People are still using pedestrian passwords that are easy to break, security company Trustwave has found.

SmartMetric Inc., a maker of biometric smart cards, failed in its appeal of a court decision saying Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. don't infringe a patent for credit and debit cards containing chips.

Supervalu Inc. said customers' payment-card details may have been stolen as the U.S. grocery chain with more than 3,300 stores became the latest to fall victim to hackers.

For some time now, I’ve been using the mobile alerting capabilities offered by my bank and card issuers. The reassurance from knowing that I’ll be notified via text message of typical and not-so-typical transactions puts my mind at ease and gives me a sense of playing a part in the fraud prevention game.