Credit card transactions in the U.S. are often not encrypted, and credit card vendors, payment processors and retailers need to embrace an encryption standard to protect credit card numbers, the CEO ...

Credit card information in your business's database is much more secure if you encrypt it. If you store this information as plain text, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through ...

The level of encryption on Target's (TGT +0.2%) debit cards make them almost impossible to hack into, surmises Computerworld Magazine in an in-depth breakdown of the security breach at the retailer.

Heartland Payment Systems' chief executive, Robert Carr, has likened his company's massive data breach to the Tylenol experience when product contamination led to an overhaul of packaging safety. Carr ...

Square has updated its credit card reading dongle to include hardware encryption circuitry. Previously, the dongle sent unencrypted credit card information to iOS or Android devices that could be read ...

The Gemalto encryption key "heist" may be one of the biggest breaches of corporate data conducted by an intelligence agency to date. The attack, first reported by The Intercept, showed how the UK and ...

Germany company Certgate has released versions of an SD card that encrypt data on Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphones and e-mail on BlackBerry devices. The products, grouped under the name “Protector,” ...