Fraud prevention is a major concern for many people. To prevent fraudulent charges, most merchants require customers to provide their debit or credit card number, its expiration date and a numeric ...

"Debit or credit?" Not too long ago, the question was a ubiquitous refrain from store clerks nationwide. If asked today, the question would be more complicated. That's because U.S. consumers have more ...

The majority of U.S. and Canadian merchants do not store credit and debit card security codes, investigators with Trustwave, a technology-security company, note in a recent report. The Chicago-based ...

Would you give strangers the keys to your house? Of course not. But why then would you give strangers the keys to your money online? When you give merchants (or anyone) your primary credit or debit ...