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Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: MasterCard
White Papers The goals were to build awareness of MasterCard's Priceless Experience music, film and sports internship program for college students, strengthen MasterCard's relationship with 18 - 24 year olds by targeting music and entertainment content that's...
[May 12, 2006, 0:00]
MasterCard fights back against phishing
News Credit card giant MasterCard announced on Tuesday a new initiative aimed at fighting the growing problem of online fraud, specifically the emerging threat of phishing schemes. MasterCard, the second largest provider of credit cards in the United...
[June 22, 2004, 16:35]
MasterCard accused of online fraud
News Internet payment firm Paycom Billing Services has filed a lawsuit against MasterCard, alleging the credit card issuer committed fraud when processing merchants' online transactions. Paycom, which filed its suit in US District Court in Los Angeles...
[May 14, 2003, 9:08]
US Report: Mastercard, Visa in trouble over smart cards
News The DOJ believes the reason for the delay is clear: In the early 1980s, MasterCard considered developing smart cards -- according to the DOJ complaint -- but ditched the idea in 1987 when its executive committee refused to approve the project...
[October 8, 1998, 9:20]
MasterCard Priceless Picks
Downloads The world is full of priceless things. That's why we've built the "Priceless Picks" application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It helps you share your favorite places and amazing deals with the world, and it can show you all the great...
[July 17, 2009, 21:18]
US tests simplified credit-card payments
News MasterCard International is planning to introduce a new payment technology across the United States next year that could simplify debit and credit card transactions for consumers. The company hopes the speedier process, which MasterCard has been...
[December 19, 2003, 14:55]
Mondex banks on land of the rising sun
News Japan's third largest commercial bank -- which dates back to 1656 -- Sanwa Bank, credit card issuer JCB and MasterCard International have signed up as Mondex electronic cash franchisees in a deal that may aims to get millions of Japanese...
[February 15, 1999, 17:12]
Mobile phone payments on trial in Texas
News Nokia and MasterCard launched a trial of a new breed of mobile phone technology this month that lets people use their Nokia phones as credit cards, the companies said on Tuesday. The phones are equipped with MasterCard's new "PayPass" payment...
[May 14, 2003, 9:33]
'Tap and go' payment launched in London
News MasterCard has launched its contactless payment technology in the UK. The MasterCard PayPass and Maestro PayPass contactless cards allow consumers to buy items costing less than £10 simply by waving their debit or credit card in front of a reader.
[September 5, 2007, 9:20]
Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers
News In what could be the largest data security breach to date, MasterCard International on Friday said information on more than 40 million credit cards may have been stolen. Of those exposed accounts, about 13.9 million are for MasterCard-branded cards...
[June 20, 2005, 9:10]
E-commerce suffers setback
News The future of the Mastercard and Visa-backed Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) was in doubt after both companies decided not to introduce applications based on the standard on November 15. VISA and Mastercard are also joining American Express in...
[November 10, 1997, 13:41]
Fraudsters swipe 2,000 UK credit card details
News Fraudsters stole the credit card details of 2,000 MasterCard holders in a major security breach last week. ZDNet UK sister site Silicon.com was contacted by one customer of the Clydesdale Bank who was told that her MasterCard details, along with...
[April 26, 2006, 12:10]
Hackers gain credit card details through UK retailer
News A UK-based online retailer has been identified as the source of a security breach that has resulted in thousands of MasterCard and Visa holders having their credit cards cancelled this week. At least 4,000 UK MasterCard holders are believed to have...
[May 2, 2006, 10:50]
BEA Systems Case Study: Banco de Santa Fe
White Papers In order to issue MasterCard and Visa credit cards, Banco de Santa Fe must follow Argentina's strict Central Bank regulations, its own sophisticated business rules, and guidelines established by MasterCard and Visa.
[September 21, 2006, 0:00]
Contactless payments launched in Liverpool
News RBS WorldPay and MasterCard are teaming up to roll out a contactless payment scheme with Liverpool retailers and buses in the coming weeks. Retailers such as Boots, as well as many of the city's smaller independent businesses, will allow customers...
[October 28, 2009, 13:38]
AYear Ago: E-commerce suffers setback
News The future of the Mastercard and Visa-backed Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) was in doubt after both companies decided not to introduce applications based on the standard on November 15. VISA and Mastercard are also joining American Express in...
[November 9, 1998, 5:25]
Meeting the PCI Standard
White Papers In order to combat this growing menace, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover and other major credit card providers have joined together to introduce a compliance standard - the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Hacking scandal blamed on broken rules
News About 22 million of those are Visa cards and 13.9 million are MasterCard, the companies have said. The data security breach, possibly the largest to date, happened because intruders were able to exploit software security vulnerabilities to install...
[June 21, 2005, 8:55]
Banks claim TJX breach twice as bad
Blog According to sealed testimony presented by the banks from credit card companies Visa and Mastercard, the data breach affected about 65 million Visa account numbers and about 29 million MasterCard numbers.
[October 25, 2007, 12:08]
Croatian Banks Make Fraud Virtually Impossible by Securing Transactions and User Identities With Thales nCipher HSMs
White Papers Both use Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to secure communication to the Visa and MasterCard environments and to digitally sign transactions. Additionally, PBZ uses HSMs to securely issue MasterCard CAP cards.
[September 19, 2009, 1:22]
