The card reader Mark bought was sold by a company called Saicoo, whose sponsored Amazon listing advertises a “DOD Military USB Common Access Card (CAC) Reader” and has more than 11,700 mostly ...

Why are we spending thousands of dollars per card reader door while allowing simple, well-publicized, and inexpensive hacks to compromise our security? The roots of this intransigence are many ...

The Square Reader has helped lower the barrier to entry for many small retailers keen to take payments on card. Now, though, new research reveals that ...

Credit card skimmers are now nearly invisible, targeting both physical terminals and online payments with wireless technology ...

If you have a swipe reader, a card reader or some type of biometric device like a fingerprint scanner, you hook it to an ACS using the Wiegand protocol. So, whose to blame, and how can this be fixed?

Square’s credit card reader for iOS/Android devices is pretty awesome—it lets anybody quickly and easily start taking credit payments. But according to Douglass Bergeron, the CEO of competing ...

The new BlackBerry Smart Card Reader is currently being shown off at the LandWarNet 2009 Conference this week in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and RIM plans to widely release it next month.

And it also announced something that got far less attention: Square will be releasing a new card reader (the thing you plug into your phone) this summer, and it will use encryption at the read head.

This article is the third in a series of considerations regarding embedded RFID readers for engineers, solution architects and product managers.. In recent years, multinational corporations such as ...

The new BlackBerry Smart Card Reader is currently being shown off at the LandWarNet 2009 Conference this week in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and RIM plans to widely release it next month.