ARTICLES AND AWARDS


Building an Online Fortress

Saturday, September 01, 2001

By Linda Punch, Credit Card Management
The incidents are becoming increasingly commonplace. A hacker breaks into a processor’s database and steals 4.5 million credit card account numbers. Another fraudster downloads software from the World Wide Web that allows him to generate actual credit card account numbers that are used to buy products and services. An organized crime ring steals account numbers from a merchant’s Web site, threatening to post them on another site if the merchant doesn’t pay a $200,000 ransom. The litany of cyberfraud seems to go on and on. More


Card Design Innovations

Sunday, July 01, 2001

By David Robertson, President , Nilson Report "Issuers of PrivaSys cards can let their cardholders generate one-time-only pseudo-account numbers (PAN) for use at the point of sale as well as at Internet Web sites." More


Paying by Virtual Numbers

Friday, December 15, 2000

By Nick Sawyer and Brendan Murray, Lafferty, Electronic Payment International
Virtual card solutions are the flavour of the month in North America as a growing number of major issuers adopt pseudo numbers to appease consumer fears in the run-up to Christmas. More