Visa and MasterCard announce plans to discontinue password use on 3D Secure, Verify by Visa and SecureCode secure payment platforms.

"Online transactions with credit cards or debit cards are increasingly verified using the 3D Secure system, which is branded as “Verified by VISA” and “MasterCard SecureCode”.

Loopholes in Verified by Visa & SecureCode Thanks Brian, this post is a perfect break-room coffee-table item. Makes me think that they should buddy up with TSA.

Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode, also known as “3-D Secure” protocol, are among the online card security systems the card networks developed in recent years in response to fraud arising ...

Rejoice. It's being done away with. Visa and Mastercard have finally taken the hint and are removing the Verifed By Visa and MasterCard SecureCode pop-up from the Internet.

MasterCard has elected to run its SecureCode hosted credit card fraud service on Sun Fire servers running Java technology and the Solaris operating platform.

Trend Micro's Rik Ferguson posted a good piece on Thursday about a major shortcoming in credit card security programs maintained by MasterCard and Visa. Although the loophole that Ferguson ...