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    Another major fraud using payment cards

    An article from November 2015 described the situation with a relatively new type of fraud, with the help of which criminals stole money from bank accounts: Hackers invented a new scheme for stealing money, stealing 250 million rubles. How exactly the fraud occurred, briefly: The criminal...
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    MasterCard payment cards with display and keyboard

    To protect online banking applications with one-time passwords, you usually use a phone or a special hardware token. The Swiss company NagraID, together with MasterCard, is beginning to introduce cards with a display and keyboard, thanks to which it is possible to implement a one-time password...
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    A brief history of microchip payment cards

    In the previous part, we talked about the history of the magnetic stripe payment card. In this article we will continue our story. But we will now talk about plastic cards with built-in chips and other promising technologies in this area. The real patent race began when the idea of adapting a...
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