POS Security is a growing priority for retailers in 2016
Many of the data breaches we’ve seen in the past years could have been avoided, as errors, poor integration and a lack of experience with these matters so commonly cause the events, or at least open the door for them to occur.
Retailers poised for a strong year
In the first few years following the Great Recession, the retail sector was hit by a constant stream of adversities, with consumers in the United States spending very little on any non-essential items compared to the early 2000s.
PDQ Signature Systems and Datacap partner for US EMV transition
Signature Systems has thousands of active US EMV installations utilizing Datacap’s integrated payments solutions
More high hopes for mobile payments in 2016
As many retailers have likely already begun to see for themselves, the mobile payments trend has not been quite as fast-moving as most analysts expected thus far, with most consumers still using traditional transaction methods such as credit cards.
Protection moves to center of payment processing discussion
In the past year or so, health care providers have been by and large the most widely discussed entities when it comes to IT security and data breach prevention, as hackers hit this industry far more frequently in that time frame than in the past.
Modern transaction processing critical in retail
Retailers that do not embrace the modern era of integrated payments in a timely fashion will often struggle to maximize their revenues and brand stature.
POS security breaches still a problem in post-EMV world
The number of breaches and instances of fraud should begin to improve as the EMV protocol takes over and fewer cards use the old, magnetic strip technology. But retailers should still be ready and vigilant about their systems and the ways they are protected.
QIR Qualification – what dealers need to know
POS Providers need to be QIR Qualified in order to continue installing POS & payments as of March 31st 2016.
The anatomy of a POS malware attack
How do these attacks actually work? What do cybercriminals do to scrape data out of these systems?
Extremely complex POS malware identified
Now that the holiday shopping season is in full force, some cybersecurity experts are warning of a new – and nearly undetectable – piece of malware that’s potentially infecting point-of-sale systems around the country.
