Chip and PIN cards and readers are finally rolling out in the United States. Unlike traditional magnetic cards, which use static information to make a transaction, these pieces of plastic create a new ...

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 ...

Chip and PIN cards are here, almost. On Thursday, October 1st, all merchants in the United States are supposed to be equipped with new credit card machines that accept Chip and PIN technology.

SAN FRANCISCO — That authoritative sstpp sound that comes from swiping a credit card through a reader is going away, to be replaced with the snick-snick of a card dip. It's the aural confirmation that ...

All Pentagon travel cards will be replaced with new tech by summer 2015. About 600 Defense Department travel cardholders are trying out new cards embedded with hack-resistant chips that require users ...

Retail payments have changed significantly over the past few years. What was once a simple swipe-and-sign process has evolved ...

Editor’s Note: Brian Dodge is the executive vice president of Communications and Strategic Initiatives at the Retail Industry Leaders Association. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely ...