credit cards
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Banks Use Machine Learning To Know A Crook’s Using Your Card
You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit asking if you’ve just made a purchase at a department store in your city. It wasn’t you who bought expensive electronics using your credit card — in fact, it’s been in your pocket all afternoon.…
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MasterCard’s Gonna Let You Pay With Your Face
Do you like your face? Then you’re going to love MasterCard’s new ID Check security system. The experimental feature uses your camera’s front-facing camera and facial recognition technology so that you can pay with your face. MasterCard thinks millenials will love it.
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Turns Out Apple Pay Can’t Solve Credit Card Fraud
Among other things, Apple’s Second Coming of the Mobile Payment Solution was meant to fix our broke-arse credit card security system. Only, according to (unconfirmed) reports, it’s doing exactly the opposite.
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The Clever Chunks Of Code That Steal Millions Of Credit Card Numbers
The United States is almost ready to join the rest of the world in the chip-and-pin credit card future. But in the meantime hackers have been stealing numbers left and right. Wired took a deep dive into the software that lets it happen, and the process is both clever and simple.