Both law enforcement agencies and financial institutions are offering consumers advice for avoiding card skimmers.

It’s a chip reader, so you can take contactless credit card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay. Similar to PayPal Zettle’s competitors, you can also take payments over the phone ...

If you’ve worked with passive RFID before, you know that most readers only work within inches of the card. In [Fran’s] DEFCON talk this summer he calls it the “ass-grabbing method” of ...

For in-person payments, you’ll also need a card reader, POS, or mobile phone at the very least. For phone payments, you’ll need a phone and a device to access your payment processor.

Often the term will bring to mind the ability to pay by holding your phone over a reader, but the system can also use NFC tags embedded in credit cards, ID card, passports, and the like.