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Online & Authorization
Online transactions grow every day in both number and volume, and so does the risk of fraud. Here are practical steps cardholders can take to shop online more safely.
Payment Systems
In payment systems, an “appeal” is the process of objecting to the outcome of a transaction dispute. It is usually discussed alongside chargebacks, but it plays a critical role in interbank dispute resolution, when a party asks the card scheme to re-evaluate a concluded decision.
Fraud
Sometimes committing fraud by exploiting system vulnerabilities is harder than exploiting human weaknesses. Fraud that exploits such human weaknesses is called social engineering.
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrencies are becoming part of everyday life and are expected to compete seriously with card payments. This glossary explains the key crypto terms, from address, altcoin and arbitrage to halving, mining, proof of stake and stop-loss.
ATM
Cash trapping is a type of ATM fraud in which criminals install a device on the ATM or interfere with its operation to trap dispensed cash, making it difficult to detect until the fraudster returns to retrieve the trapped money.
Security
Before 3D Secure 2.0, let's explain what 3D Secure is. 3D Secure is a two-layer payment authentication system that protects both the cardholder and the merchant in online payments. First released by Visa in 1999, it was later adopted by other card schemes…
ATM
The shutter can be described as the gate mechanism that prevents financial loss during ATM cash deposit and withdrawal transactions by controlling customer access to cash and preventing tampering with the ATM system.
Fraud
Data leakage is the intentional or accidental exposure of sensitive data through any channel where it is stored, processed or transmitted. This post covers its three main causes and the DLP solutions used to prevent it.