When your credit card is charged at a hotel, are you sure your data is secure? Consumer Reports advocates asking for an "Attestation of Compliance" certificate from the hotel to be on the safe side. A ...

Learn about PCI compliance, the essential standards for securing credit card data, its 12 key requirements, benefits, and ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

According to data from Statista, 40% of point-of-sale payments made in 2021 were done so with a credit card, followed by debit cards at 30%. Cash usage continues to decline year over year. With credit ...

PCI compliance may seem like an arcane art if you’re a small merchant, but you ignore it at your peril. Non-compliance with the security standards developed by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security ...

Nearly 80 percent of retailers and organizations that handle credit card transactions have been hit with a data breach, but more than 70 percent still don't consider security strategic to their ...