Blog Posts Tagged with "MasterCard"
Update on the Visa - MasterCard - GPN Breach
April 03, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Global Payments' announced that Track 2 data was stolen, which is used by the bank. Track 1 data generally refers to the information reported on the front of a bank card. So if this information was stolen along with that contained in Track 2, it is possible to clone a card...
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Visa and MasterCard Alert Banks of Massive Processor Breach
March 30, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Visa Inc. is aware of a potential data compromise incident at a third party entity... Visa has provided payment card issuers with the affected account numbers so they can take steps to protect consumers through independent fraud monitoring and, if needed, reissuing cards..."
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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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Card Brand Merchant Level Tables
September 09, 2011 Added by:PCI Guru
Sometimes you can negotiate with your processor or acquiring bank to get your multiple legal entities treated as a single entity and do one compliance filing. The key is that you need to negotiate this change before you start your PCI compliance efforts, not after the fact...
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MasterCard SDP Revisited For Level 2 Merchants
December 29, 2010 Added by:PCI Guru
All of these merchants intend to conduct their own SAQ but wanted to make sure that was still acceptable under the MasterCard SDP rules. Last year there was a lot of confusion since MasterCard pulled back on their decision to require Level 2 merchants to have a QSA conduct an on-site PCI assessment...
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WikiLeaks Denial of Service Wars Continue to Escalate
December 09, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Of note is the attack against website of Senator Joe Lieberman, who may have helped oust WikiLeaks from the protection Amazon servers offered, and the political action committee website of Sarah Palin after she issued statements that WikiLeaks' Julian Assange should be hunted like a terrorist. ..
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Operation Payback and 4chan Hit MasterCard - Twitter Is Next
December 08, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The hacker social network 4chan and Operation Payback are engaged in a flurry of DDoS in retaliation for any actions they deem intended to limit WikiLeaks operations. MasterCard is being targeted today, and a message on the 4chan forums indicates that the next target is Twitter...
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