Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Maybe you’ve noticed: At many stores, both big and small, you still have to swipe the magnetic stripe on your new chip-enabled credit card, rather than insert or dip it into a chip-reader. Edgar Dworsky, founder of the website ConsumerWorld.org, wondered…
Credit card chip tech safer, but could lead to holiday slowdowns
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans New credit cards are arriving all over the county that have security chips that are designed to cut down on fraud. The changeover is leading to some confusion and questions about why its all necessary. One reason is that it moves…
CREDIT CARD — USERS WARNED OF SCAMS AMID SHIFT TO SECURITY CHIP CARDS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If you’re a credit card user, you either have or will be getting new cards with security chips. They are designed to protect you against fraud, but scammers are already tying to exploit them. “It’s the biggest change in the way…
Consumers need to watch out for smart chip credit card fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans On the 1st of October, the deadline for credit card retailers & issuers to start supporting smart chip or EMV-chipped credit cards passed. As per experts, these cards help increase the encryption on transactions as it generates a new number &…
iPhone 6s teardown results: Apple A9 is a dual-core chip, new 6-cluster GPU, more cache
The Apple iPhone 6s family is already available in the United States and the majority of Western markets, but while the phones are out there, some particularities including essential parts of their hardware remain a mystery. We know that the new iPhone 6s series is powered by the brand new…
Meizu Pro 5 benchmark results are out: beats Galaxy S6 with its own Exynos 7420 chip
The Meizu Pro 5 is the new top-tier phone from Meizu, a company that has grown immensely in popularity in China in the past couple of years. It’s a large phone: with a 5.7-inch Super AMOLED display, and it features a sturdy metal body that looks very stylish (and very…
Credit card overhaul will chip away at fraud
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Look carefully at your credit or debit card. If it’s less than a year old, it likely has a “chip” on the front of the card. It is an icon with a dull sheen located near the card’s logo. If there…
New chip technology fights credit-card fraud at retailers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If you are like me, you have received a number of replacement credit cards in the past several months, even though your current card is nowhere near its expiration date. The driving force behind this is the growing amount of credit…
With new chip credit cards on the way here’s what consumers need to know
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans (USA TODAY) – Techies are calling the upcoming shift in how we will use our credit cards at the store something like “dip the chip.” It’s not a bad way of explaining things. Instead of swiping our plastic, we’ll be able to slide or…
Did you know that MediaTek’s top Helio X10 chip comes in 3 versions: here are the differences
Times are changing: while just last year, most top-end devices were running almost exclusively on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips, these days, we have way more diversity with the extremely well-performing Exynos chips in Samsung Galaxies to the very affordable yet plenty powerful MediaTek chips. It is the MediaTek silicon, however, that…