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Chip and PIN and the PCI Data Security Standard
White Papers Chip and PIN is a British government-backed initiative to implement the Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) standard for credit cards with a built-in Integrated Circuit (IC), also known as IC Cards or Chip and PIN.
[September 2, 2009, 1:22]
Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
News A £1m chip and PIN fraud at a Shell petrol station was "an inside job", according to UK payments body Apacs. Shell suspended the use of chip and PIN payments at 600 UK petrol stations over the weekend as a precautionary measure following the theft...
[May 9, 2006, 16:10]
Researchers devise chip and PIN crack
News Two Cambridge researchers have devised a relay attack with a hacked chip and PIN terminal that could enable attackers to bypass bank card security measures. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory...
[February 6, 2007, 6:00]
Royal Bank of Scotland rolls out chip and PIN
News The Royal Bank of Scotland is dishing out chip and PIN devices to its online banking customers. The chip and PIN card readers will be sent to customers free of charge and people will start receiving the devices this week.
[May 4, 2007, 10:34]
Barclays rolls out chip and PIN for the home
News Barclays is sending out chip and PIN terminals to more than half a million of its online banking customers. Barnaby Davis, director of electronic banking at Barclays: "Barclays believes this is the most effective form of two-factor authentication...
[April 19, 2007, 11:12]
Survey: UK retailers may miss Chip & PIN deadline
Talkback Only a couple of retailers in my area have the Chip & Pin hardware installed but it does not fill me with confidence when I use it. Response times for the system are extremely poor which leaves the shopper standing in the queue feeling embarresed...
[May 19, 2004, 12:44]
Survey: UK retailers may miss Chip & PIN deadline
Talkback What incentive is there for a cardholder to have a PIN with the new type Chip and PIN credit card if they are never going to use it to withdraw 'expensive,' cash at an ATM? Will Chip & PIN prevent ID Theft or CNP fraud?
[May 18, 2004, 17:05]
Survey: UK retailers may miss Chip & PIN deadline
News More than a quarter of UK retailers are wary of moving to the latest Chip & PIN smart card technology for plastic card transactions, according to a survey conducted by Retail Logic, a maker of payment processing software, and the Retail Bulletin...
[May 18, 2004, 15:49]
Police raid chip and PIN hacking operation
News Criminal gangs are hacking chip and PIN terminals to steal customer card transaction and PIN details. When police raided the premises they found stolen chip and PIN terminals, card account numbers, a card reader/writer, computer software and fake...
[August 15, 2008, 9:28]
ID card 'chip and PIN' proposal raises security fears
News The government has proposed adding chip-and-PIN capabilities to ID cards, but questions remain over whether such a move would be beneficial or even possible at this late stage in the £4.7bn project.
[April 16, 2009, 9:19]
Embedded Chip and PIN Solution Saves OEM One Year's Development Time
White Papers CreditCall, based in the United Kingdom (U.K.planned to develop a Chip and Personal Identification Number (PIN) card payment system for manufacturers of parking, kiosk, and vending machines. Crucial to the system's success was the embedded software...
[February 22, 2007, 0:00]
Shell's £1m chip and PIN fraud 'an inside job'
Talkback On April 26th the chip and PIN machine was stolen from my local Shell petrol station counter in the Bath road in Speen, Newbury. Apparently someonen has designed chip and pin machines in such a way that theycan be made to store all the customers...
[May 12, 2006, 13:37]
Microsoft: Identity challenge will have many solutions
News While Chip and PIN has many advantages, operational issues surrounding the technology making it unlikely to prevail as a worldwide standard for identification authentication, according to Peter Cullen, chief privacy strategist for Microsoft this...
[July 8, 2005, 16:50]
Part of the push to make it mandatory
Talkback If you have to do a chip and pin verification to access services then you have to have the card. Chip and Pin makes it easy for any organisation to mandate use of the card and therefore for the government to track its user.
[April 16, 2009, 12:03]
UK falling victim to foreign card fraud
News While the three years since chip and PIN's introduction have seen a cut in the UK's card-fraud rate, criminals in European countries where the technology has yet to be rolled out are siphoning millions of pounds from UK consumers' cards.
[October 2, 2008, 8:11]
Focus: Processor makers' flippin' genius
News When Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in the next few weeks introduces its new Duron microprocessor, the chip will be faster and cheaper partly because of a prosaic-sounding technology called flip-chip pin grid array packaging.
[May 2, 2000, 9:11]
UK banks trial 'smart chip' credit cards
News Northampton has been chosen as a pilot for the 'Chip and Pin' scheme that is intended to be rolled out nationwide to 40 million card holders by 2005. Sandra Quinn, spokeswoman for the Chip and Pin scheme, said in a statement: "The trial is the...
[May 20, 2003, 11:12]
'Smart' bank card scheme goes nationwide
News The 'Chip and PIN' project, which is backed by payment clearing body APACS, banks and the British Retail Consortium aims to issue 42 million people with 120m of the new cards by 2005. Sandra Quinn, spokeswoman for APACS, said: "The first chip and...
[October 2, 2003, 16:40]
Barclaycard fights phishers with password generator
News They can read the cards using "chip and PIN" technology that are currently being rolled out on credit and debit cards to replace signatures. Andrew Kellett, senior research analyst at Butler Group, said as the whole country moves to chip and PIN...
[July 5, 2004, 17:35]
Experts eye biometric issues
Talkback Wer have chip and pin now, our ones are detatchable for people in wheel chairs but it would not stretch to the floor. Her eyes seemed normal, and she seemed quite normal but I wonder how biometrics would treat her - the best effort in designing the...
[December 14, 2004, 22:15]
