Don't have an EMV chip card yet? Don't worry. You have plenty of options. You may have read news reports about these thumbnail-sized metallic squares that now appear on the front of many credit cards.

Chip-enabled cards aren't new, they've been around for more than 20 years and are common in many areas of the world. But they are more secure than magnetic-striped-only cards.

Computer researchers may have found a flaw in chip-based credit cards. Though the cards are designed to combat fraudulent cloning, apparently there’s a way to rewrite the magnetic strip code so ...