Heartland is pushing for the credit card industry to adopt an end-to-end encryption standard, he said, and the company is deploying tamper-resistant point-of-sale terminals at its member retailers.

And with credit card fraud booming, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council announced last year that it would phase out an old, buggy encryption scheme used for processing digital ...

Heartland Payment Systems' chief executive, Robert Carr, has likened his company's massive data breach to the Tylenol experience when product contamination led to an overhaul of packaging safety.

In the credit card approval process, one of the most common encryption methods used is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or its successor, Transport Layer Security (TLS).

For merchants, credit card issuers, and payment networks, tokenization significantly reduces fraud and significantly lowers the cost of doing business.

The United Kingdom is taking a chance -- WWII Nazi encryption technology will likely be used to create more secure credit cards. A plugboard positioned in front of an "Enigma" machine.

With financial crime on the rise, it's important to know which payment methods you should use and which you should avoid.

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