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News about credit cards

• Updated: yARN: Do customers care when there's a big security breach like the Sony Playstation assault?

  Even worse, some Australian credit providers seem to know little about this major hack

• Russian charged with selling credit card numbers online

  The suspect is arrested in France on charges issued by a U.S. court

• Heartland, MasterCard settle over data breach

  The deal marks the third settlement agreement for Heartland with a major card company

• PCI council launches certification program for IT staff

  Internal Security Assessor's program designed to bolster a company's self-assessment capabilities

• ValidSoft tackles problem of credit-card blocking

  The software checks if a person's mobile phone is in the same country as a transaction so the card isn't blocked by the bank

• Fraudsters trying to capture bank cards at machines

  As an alternative to skimming card details, criminals in Europe are finding ways to snag a person's card

Features about credit cards

• Twitter co-founder Squares up credit card payments

  New product is a combination of hardware and software that lets you accept credit card payments from your iPhone.