When Catasauqua police started investigating a complaint from a borough resident last September about more than $1,000 in unauthorized charges on her debit card, they had no way of knowing the fraud ...

Time has run out for “knuckle-busters,” the clunky contraptions merchants needed for decades to accept card transactions, but their legacy—the raised characters embossed on payment cards—is proving ...

He added that card designers can do much more with a smooth surface. A design in the lower portion of the card always gets "distorted" once the numbers and letters are embossed, he said. Even the ...