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 ...

Veritec Inc., a Golden Valley, Minn.-based security technology vendor, has released security technology that enables users to deactivate their debit cards by entering a code provided by Veritec into ...

Would you give strangers the keys to your house? Of course not. But why then would you give strangers the keys to your money online? When you give merchants (or anyone) your primary credit or debit ...

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 ...

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