Just three days after the deadline for businesses to install new smart chip credit card readers, scammers have already found a new way to target you and your money. The scammers are trying to ...

Chip cards are less vulnerable to skimming than magnetic stripe cards, but they aren’t completely safe. Crooks can still capture your card information from a chip card using a technique called ...

Chip Cards vs. Magnetic Stripes: Is One More Likely to Fall for Scams? Think back to the last time you paid for something at a store. Did you swipe your card, or did you dip it into the terminal? The ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Does the new chip in your credit card protect you from fraud? There are 408 million credit cards, embedded with the chip, in circulation. That means about 80 percent of Americans ...

Your credit or debit card with a chip in it, touted as being less vulnerable than magnetic strip cards, may not be as safe as you think. Some consumers' chip cards are getting hacked anyway and they ...

The “chip” is coming. Amid relentless revelations of cyberthieves stealing our credit card and other personal data, there’s a renewed push to fortify the plastic cards sitting in millions of Americans ...

A chip and PIN card is a credit card that includes microchip technology and a personal identification number (PIN) to securely verify a cardholder during a transaction. The embedded microchip is ...

Starting Oct. 1, a new standard in credit card technologies goes into effect. — -- Chip-enabled credit cards will now become the standard for consumers and business owners. Banks and credit ...

Much of the focus on the microchip shortages has been on automobile manufacturing and consumer electronics, but payment cards and point-of-sale devices are also under greater strain from Russia's war ...