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 ...

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 ...

Millions of people use credit and debit cards daily to make purchases in stores and online. You’re probably familiar with the “signature” field on the back of the card. Maybe you’ve even heard the ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — This story is personal for 2 Wants To Know. Last night, my phone started buzzing and dinging at 1:15 am. One after another, there was a message from my bank about a special code to ...

Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data processor Heartland Payment Systems and supermarket chain Hannaford Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the United States ...

A credit card CVV, or card verification value, is a three- or four-digit security code that appears on your credit card and is used to prevent fraud. Many or all of the products on this page are from ...