A new problem has faced grocery shoppers recently at the checkout: should they swipe or insert their credit card? The fingernail-sized chips on credit cards require users to insert their cards instead ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Entering the biggest shopping time of the year, businesses nationwide are installing chip-card readers as another form of insurance for consumers and businesses worried about ...

Chip Cards vs. Magnetic Stripes: Is One More Likely to Fall for Scams? Think back to the last time you paid for something at a store. Did you swipe your card, or did you dip it into the terminal? The ...

Each month, more than $300 million in food assistance dollars is awarded by the state Department of Human Services (DHS) to eligible enrollees, but millions end up in the hands of criminals who ...

Major credit card companies urged retailers to make the switch to credit cards that used chips instead of magnetic strips to complete transactions in October 2015, but many consumers have noted that ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Does the new chip in your credit card protect you from fraud? There are 408 million credit cards, embedded with the chip, in circulation. That means about 80 percent of Americans ...

With the October 1 deadline, Visa and MasterCard are officially shedding their liability for fraud committed through magnetic swipe transactions. The “virtually impossible to counterfeit” chip-enabled ...