Hey there, friends! If you’re a business owner or an IT professional, you’ve probably heard of PCI DSS. It’s the abbreviation for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, a set of security requirements aimed at protecting cardholder data. If your organization accepts, processes, stores, or transmits credit card information, you need to comply with PCI …
Post-Thanksgiving shopping has changed. Black Friday now begins on Thursday (if not sooner) and the Cyber Monday deals may last all week (or longer). But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take care to protect your personal information and your finances, whether shopping with your feet in the stores or with your fingers online. Here are …
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The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council is the governing body that establishes the policies that all merchants that process credit cards – large and small – must follow. By following the requirements set in the PCI Data Security Standard, merchants can better protect themselves against cyber attacks and thieves trying to steal customers’ credit …
Online retailers breathed a sigh of relief last month when they didn’t have to muddle through the EMV migration alongside traditional retailers. EMV, which stands for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa, is a new global standard for credit cards equipped with computer chips and security technology to authenticate transactions. In the wake of several large-scale data …
This short animated video provides an overview of the PCI Data Security Standard in a more entertaining way.
I recently discussed with a potential customer why they should work with ZZ Servers instead of one of the now hundreds of other hosting providers offering PCI “compliant” hosting services. After spending the last five years doing PCI Level 1 validations I have run into many areas where hosting providers do not get PCI and …
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Any merchant who accepts credit cards and has a merchant account must validate compliance. It does not matter if you use a 3rd party processor or if you outsource all of your credit card processing. It’s the ownership of the merchant account that defines if you must validate compliance. The only to avoid PCI compliance is …
Yet another data breach involving theft of credit card data has been announced. On March 13th, Batteries.com received notice from a customer about potential unauthorized activity on their credit card. They later discovered the Batteries.com network had been breached from around February 25, 2009 to April 9, 2009. The breach involved theft of names, addresses, and …
As of October 1, 2008 the PCI Data Security Standard version 1.2 became active. There are a number of changes to PCI DSS since version 1.1. Version 1.2 removes much of the ambiguity from earlier versions and provides additional details on items such as the use wireless devices. One of the largest and possibly most hard hitting …
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