Discover how credit card validation codes work and protect against fraud. Learn about their placement, security role, and examples to secure online transactions.

In order to combat the rise of online credit card theft, several French banks are partnering with security company Oberthur Technologies to create a credit card with a security code that is constantly ...

If you received gift cards over the holidays, don't throw them in a drawer and forget about them. While many gift card scams ...

New research reveals the ease with which criminals can hack an account without ANY of the card details Dubbed the Distributed Guessing Attack, the team from Newcastle University, UK, say it can take ...

Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe.

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Joe Van Brussel is a freelance writer for CNET Money, where he deciphers obfuscatory credit card offers and breaks them down so consumers actually know what belongs in their wallet. He also covers ...

With the announcement of Apple’s new credit card have come a flurry of questions: When is it coming out? How does it work? How do you use it? And, perhaps most importantly, is the Apple Card safe?

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