April, 2018

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Retailers Ready To Drop Credit Card Signatures

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With fraud on the rise, credit card networks have realized that customer signatures are simply not a reliable way to authenticate someone’s identity — and some of the country’s largest retailers agree. Each card network is setting its own set of rules regarding signatures. The plan is to soon get rid of them completely.

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How Co-Branded Credit Cards Evolved From The Early 1900s Department Store

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In the early 1900s, department stores came up with a novel idea to help their customers pay for their purchases: Customers could use metal plates — that looked like dog tags or tokens — at retailers such as Gimbels that tracked their spending. These gas cards became more important during the oil embargo in the 1970s.

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Samsung Pay And PayPal Power In-Store Payments

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Brick-and-mortar retail has spent the last decade building bridges to the digital world so a new generation of digital consumers can move fluidly between them. Digital wallets are only as convenient as they are useful, and as a form factor substitute for plastic cards, consumers don’t feel they’re much of either. Samsung Pay Inc.

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Employee Phishing Likely To Blame For Saks, Lord & Taylor Breach

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Experts say an employee phishing scam is likely to blame for the data breach affecting millions of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor payment cards. Hudson’s Bay disclosed the breach on Sunday and said an estimated 5 million cards were compromised. The Canadian company noted it has commenced an investigation.

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Millions Of Saks, Lord & Taylor Store Cards May Have Been Breached

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Retailer Hudson’s Bay has disclosed that customers at Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America have had their payment cards compromised. The breach, which is believed to involve 5 million cards, would be one of the largest involving payment cards over the past year.

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Weak Websites: How Brands Are Putting Their Customers At Risk

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Krebs on Security reported Monday night (April 2) that the fast-casual bakery/café chain had been leaking names, emails, addresses, birthdays and partial credit card numbers (the last four digits) from its website for at least eight months. Both companies are part of Toronto-based retailer Hudson’s Bay. If the U.S. Hudson’s Bay.

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PayPal Teams With ebizmarts To Integrate With Magento

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PayPal has inked a deal with point-of-sale (POS) company ebizmarts to help retailers offer both POS and digital payments. According to news from Mobile Payments Today , under the partnership, PayPal’s mobile card product will be combined with ebizmart’s mobile app Magento.

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