Blog Posts Tagged with "Merchants"
A Reason Why the PCI Standards Get No Respect
May 11, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
The PCI SSC only requires its assessors document the services they provide in their assessment reports. While that offers a certain amount of transparency, when you read some of these ROCs, it becomes painfully obvious that some QSACs are assessing their own security services...
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Another Year, Another QSA Re-Certification
April 27, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
There is a lot of discussion on network segmentation, and this year’s presentation material indicates there are apparently still a lot of QSAs that do not understand the concept of network segmentation and what constitutes good segmentation from poor segmentation...
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When Will PCI SSC Stop the Mobile Payment Insanity?
April 11, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
The merchant is left to their own devices to know whether any of these mobile payment processing solutions can be trusted. I am fearful that small merchants, who are the marketing target of these solutions, will be put out of business should the device somehow be compromised...
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PCI: When a Breach is Not a Breach
March 09, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
The lawsuit points out a disconcerting issue with a cardholder data breach: Any incident investigation initiated by the card brands under the PCI standards is going to focus on PCI compliance and not on whether or not the breach actually occurred...
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Security Tips When Providing Free Wi-Fi at Your Business
March 08, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Wi-Fi is great for bringing in customers and as a promotional tool that creates customer loyalty. Merchants such as hotels, coffee shops, burger joints and anyplace with a store front, chairs and tables is offering free Wi-Fi. But what about all the Wi-Fi security threats?
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Data Classification and Controls Policy for PCI DSS
March 01, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
The first step in protecting customer data is to know what sensitive data you store, classify what you have and set up the appropriate controls. Here is a policy for any merchant or payment processor who wants to achieve and sustain PCI DSS 2.0 compliance and protect data...
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Why The Push For EMV Adoption In The United States?
February 21, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
What is Visa USA trying to prove with this push of EMV? Apparently only Visa USA can tell us because, for the rest of us, there are no business cases we can construct to justify the switch to EMV. Obviously, Visa USA knows something that the rest of us do not. Or do they?
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Data Privacy: Oxymoron, Wishful Thinking, or Strategic Goal?
February 04, 2012 Added by:Brian Dean
Consumers are desensitized to breaches, as evidenced by the meager rate of consumers applying for free credit monitoring services after a company breach. If you analyze the data that was breached, sometimes you have to ask, “Why are they even collecting all of that data?”
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Restaurant Challenges US Bank and PCI DSS after Seizure of Funds
January 27, 2012 Added by:Andrew Weidenhamer
"The PCI system is less a system for securing customer card data than a system for raking in profits for the card companies via fines and penalties. Visa and MasterCard impose fines on merchants even when there is no fraud loss at all, simply because the fines are profitable...”
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Shopper Trust and the Zappos Ordeal
January 23, 2012 Added by:Bill Mathews
Often merchants just sell your information outright to make revenue off the data they’ve collected. Usually this is reserved for more nefarious merchants, and sometimes it is done out of ignorance of their own policies. But make no mistake – it DOES happen...
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Chatting With An Auditor About Credit Union Compliance
December 17, 2011 Added by:Ed Moyle
Credit unions, by virtue of their regulatory context, have more "interpretive latitude" in how technical security controls get implemented. Meaning they should try on PCI compliance before calling out merchants - especially the big ones - for having it soft...
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Merchant Beware – New Mobile Payment Solution in the Wild
December 12, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
Even if Square’s software encrypts the data, the underlying OS will also collect the data in cleartext. Forensic examinations of these devices have shown time and again that regardless of what the software vendor did, the data still existed in memory unencrypted...
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PCI Compliance: On Redirects and Reposts
December 09, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
A number of clients recently prompted me on my take regarding Redirects and Reposts as they attempt to shrink their PCI compliance footprint as small as possible. A lot of them like the idea of the repost because it requires only a simple change to their existing e-Commerce sites...
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Nearly 80% of Retailers' Data at High Risk
November 25, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Now, after five years of pushing standards out to merchants and retailers, a Verizon study has found that 79% of retailers are noncompliant. No matter how you slice it, retailers are a target and must employ multiple layers of fraud protection to thwart cyber criminals...
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Affiliate Marketing Scam
November 21, 2011 Added by:Mark Baldwin
Just about every adult website has an affiliate program and it is not uncommon for scammers to look for ways to take advantage of these programs. I was recently informed by a large payment gateway operator of a scam that is currently in operation. Here is how it works...
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Trust: A Rare Commodity Online
November 09, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Dishonesty poses a challenge to banks and retailers in the form of theft. Theft is a big problem on the Internet, and any online business knows that they can’t afford to trust you, regardless of how honest you may be. The FFIEC recently instructed retailers and banks to enhance their security...
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- Follow Up to the Out of Band Authentication Post
- Skype Malware Campaign Spreading Poison Ivy Trojan
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- Dutch MoD Innovation Competition 2012: CYBER Operations 2.0
- NIST Workshop: The Technical Aspects of Botnets
- Security Automation by Hand - Batch/Bash/FOR
- Who Are You Preaching to Anyway?
- Some Observations on Klout Scores
- Where Will the Buck Stop in Cloud Security?
- How Does Your Bank Protect Your Data?