Stories about: Verifone

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New attack trend pushes POS encryption to the fore 21 May, 2008 09:42

The relatively scant attention that retailers have paid to securing their point-of-sale systems over the past few years is making the POS setups increasingly attractive targets for cybercrooks who are looking to steal payment card data.
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Hackers open new front in payment card data thefts 16 April, 2008 08:50

Security managers often describe their efforts to protect corporate data from being compromised as a full-fledged battle of wits against cybercrooks who are continually arming themselves with innovative tools and methods of attack.
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The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: How does it compare? 05 February, 2008 08:42

Even by the bloated standards of high-tech mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo appears to be the largest ever among technology firms. It is certainly Microsoft's largest. The company mostly buys smaller firms for less than a billion dollars to fill in gaps in its product lineup. But that may be changing. Last year, for instance, Microsoft bought Seattle online advertising firm aQuantive for US$6 billion, its largest ever until the long-rumored Yahoo deal was unveiled on Friday.
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Visa adds to its list of apps that improperly hold card data 04 February, 2008 08:11

Visa this week privately issued an updated list of payment applications that store all of the magnetic-stripe data taken from credit and debit cards, as part of its ongoing effort to get retailers and other merchants to stop using such software.
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Would you like Wi-Fi with that? 16 April, 2007 16:15

McDonald's best-kept secret may be that it offers free Wi-Fi with every meal. More than 8,000 of its restaurants provide high-speed wireless service to customers. The fast food giant has yet to fully promote the perk, but it has already attracted one group: Gamers using Nintendo DS systems currently account for 25 percent of the Wi-Fi traffic in its restaurants.
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VeriFone relocates to Singapore 23 May, 2006 15:13

Electronic payments provider VeriFone has relocated its headquarters from the US to Singapore to run its global supply chain management and research and development.
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HP hit hard by slowed consumer spending 17 May, 2001 08:51

Hewlett-Packard met its own lowered expectations for its second quarter in what continues to be a tough economic climate for the company, HP announced Wednesday.
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Visa smart-card hardware ready, but software isn't 14 May, 2001 08:01

Visa International Inc. last week announced that the development of hardware needed for point-of-sale (POS) systems to read the embedded chip technology in its smart cards has been completed. However, the terminal software needed to read the cards won't be available until late this year.
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Visa 'smart card' technology almost ready for use 09 May, 2001 08:23

Visa U.S.A yesterday announced that the hardware and software needed for point-of-sales (POS) systems to read the embedded chip technology in its smart cards is now available, and said bank card processors supporting 80 percent of Visa's card volume can now process smart card payment transactions.
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Catuity wins over big North American customers 03 April, 2001 15:32

Catuity, the Australian developer of software for customer loyalty programs that is listed on both the ASX and NASDAQ, has chalked up a number of solid orders from large North American corporations to add to the relationship it entered with Visa USA last June. Catuity is aiming to cash in on status -- still -- as the only certified supplier of loyalty programs for the smartVisa card
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Bruce Thompson takes seat at Sausage 20 October, 2000 13:01

Shortly after quitting the managing director's job at Hewlett-Packard's Australian subsidiary, Bruce Thompson has been appointed to the rather slim board of Sausage Software. Other movements around the traps this week were quite seriously puzzling