Fraud prevention is a major concern for many people. To prevent fraudulent charges, most merchants require customers to provide their debit or credit card number, its expiration date and a numeric ...

The majority of U.S. and Canadian merchants do not store credit and debit card security codes, investigators with Trustwave, a technology-security company, note in a recent report. The Chicago-based ...

Stealing money without ever swiping a card has become a new reality, driven by a scam known as “ghost tapping” or “ghost ...

Editorial Note: Forbes Advisor may earn a commission on sales made from partner links on this page, but that doesn't affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. CVV stands for card verification value ...

A credit card CVV, or card verification value, is a three- or four-digit security code that appears on your credit card and is used to prevent fraud. Many or all of the products on this page are from ...

More and more people are relying on debit cards as opposed to cash and checks, studies show — including Stanford, Calif. resident Ruby Wong, who is pictured with her medical debit card. MCT photo ...

Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data processor Heartland Payment Systems and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the United States ...