It may be convenient to pay with a wave of your credit or debit card, but Consumer Reports' Andrea Rock says so-called contactless cards make your personal data vulnerable. "Thieves can collect the ...

In theory, contactless card transactions made using near field communication (NFC) technology – used for purchases of £20 or less by customers holding a card or NFC-enabled smartphone near a terminal ...

Contactless payments were supposed to make checkout lines faster and safer, but criminals are now exploiting the same tap-to-pay tech to skim money from distracted shoppers. A tactic known as "ghost ...

A whopping 18.3 billion contactless payments were made in the UK back in 2023, a seven per cent increase compared to the year before. Data from UK Finance shows contactless payments represented 38 per ...

You can read about the security measures these cards use – and countermeasures hackers might use to subvert them – in Hacking Contactless Payment Cards. That story appears today, alongside this week’s ...

SIM-based NFC technology adds enhanced user experience, improved branding & greater market penetration. Cartes tradeshow, Villepinte, France -- Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in ...