Security @ MagTek In the News

• US firm seeks to provide card 'fingerprint' detection system to J'can banks
  Financial institutions in Jamaica lost $245 million as a result of card fraud last year
• MagTek names Tom Patterson chief security officer
• American Banker story on wiping out counterfeit cards
  Visa Inc. and Fifth Third Bancorp are testing...
• MagTek demonstrates how to defeat credit card skimming on CBS News  (2009-09-25)
  See CSO Tom Patterson in action, defeating counterfeit cards in Point of Sale terminals
• InfoSecurityWatch talks to MagTek's Larry Meyers
  MagTek's Larry Meyers on finding PCI's Holly Grail- Affordable Dynamic Card Data
• Investors Business Daily -- Stand Up to CyberCrime
  Interview with MagTek CSO Tom Patterson
• Doin' It Right - The Green Sheet
  MagneSafe technology exceeds all 14 points of Visa Inc.'s 2009 published best practices for data field encryption
• Don't Get Skimmed - WUSA9
  New technology that takes a magnetic fingerprint of your credit card and prevents thieves from making a copy
• Tips for Avoiding Credit Card Skimming
  Financial security advisor Tom Patterson offers advice to consumers for protecting credit cards from theft during this holiday shopping season. WSJ's Mary Pilon reports
• Market Watch Interview - Card Skimming
  Steve Potisk interview with Tom Patterson on card skimming
• Gains for MagTek - American Banker
  Data security developments
• Pymnts.com Interviews MagTek
  David Evans interviews MagTek CSO Tom Patterson on security and innovations at the POS
• Steps to protect against credit-card skimming
  This is the time of year that credit-card and debit-card use is at its peak. It is also the time for credit-card fraud.
• Is there finally a way to end credit and debit card fraud?
  The Tech Herald - Security
• Sqaure and Security: MagTek CEO Mimi Hart Offers Executive Insight
  PYMNTS.com recently had the honor to speak with MagTek's CEO Mimi Hart and asked her to share her thoughts on this potentially game-changing device.
• Counterfeit credit/debit card fraud: Let's stop it now
  Counterfeit credit/debit card fraud accounts for billions of dollars. To make matters worse, experts agree it is the number-one way terrorists fund themselves. We need to change that.
• CES: Magensa.net tells the difference between real and fraudulent cards
  Avoid the Chargeback Fees and Hassles - Simply Stop Fraud
• INITIATIVE TO WIPE OUT CREDIT CARD FRAUD
  As posted in the United States Congressional Record - Jan 21, 2010
• Turn your iPhone into a credit card terminal
  "the entire investment in mobile credit card processing paid off within a couple of months"
• MagnePrint I.D.s counterfeit cards at point of purchase
  Retailers are using their heads to combat fraud involving the use of counterfeit credit, debit and gift cards
• MagnePrint - Earning Its Stripes
  MagnePrint I.D.s counterfeit cards at point of purchase
• You Won’t Get Skimmed Again
  A relatively inexpensive technology could wipe out the multi-billion dollar costs of payment card fraud
• Demonstration of Magensa.net's card authentication service
  See how simply checking the magnetic fingerprint helps merchants lower fraud
• As smartcards loom, magnetic cards made safer
  Smartcards may be the future, but legacy payment cards still need support
• MagTek Responds to the SPVA's Recently Published E2E Guidelines
• A Credit Card Digital Fingerprint That Looks At Three Months Of Payments
  Written by Evan Schuman of Storefrontbacktalk.com
• Avoid credit-card hacking on your hotel stay
  It doesn't take the brilliance of a rocket scientist for a nefarious employee to hack into a hotel computer and steal your credit card info
• Hundreds fall victim to suburban identity theft scam
  A California-based security company says its Magneprint's system uses a card's magnetic stripe like a fingerprint to prevent counterfeiting.