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Intuit, which works with numerous small-business owners through its QuickBooks software and other products, is learning that convincing merchants to adopt EMV technology will require more than just educating them on the technology and the consequences of missing the card networks' October deadline.

Payments security researchers today find themselves in an awkward position and it's retailers who have put them there.

Corporate payment solutions provider WEX is introducing a fuel card that is co-branded with GE Capital.

Cloud services provider Akamai Technologies and data security vendor Trustwave are partnering to provide customers with cybersecurity defense mechanisms from their respective portfolios.

Since enterprises must maintain information about their customers, why is it that breaches happen constantly?

Retail chain Sally Beauty knows that it was sick and when. Now the challenge is to figure out what made it sick.

Over the holidays, my wife and I took a short vacation to Napa Valley. We had the opportunity to visit a number of wineries and purchase a few bottles—an experience that also demonstrated the shortcomings of antiquated card security.

San Diego-based Mitek, a firm that specializes in capturing mobile data for customer acquisition, has acquired Dutch identity verification company IDchecker.

Merchants expect that payment card fraud will migrate to e-commerce as the U.S. gets more protection at the physical point of sale through EMV chip cards. That means chargebacks, already a problem in physical retail, will escalate in e-commerce as well.

Identity thieves stole information on 104,000 U.S. taxpayers from the IRS website and used the data to file fake tax returns that yielded as much as $50 million in refunds, agency Commissioner John Koskinen said.