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Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers
News An intruder was able to use security vulnerabilities to infiltrate the CardSystems network and access the cardholder data, MasterCard said. For identity fraud, the individual cardholder is most likely the first who will discover it," he said.
[June 20, 2005, 9:10]
PCI DSS and Wireless
White Papers Since 2004, the PCI DSS standard has guided retailers about securing credit card transactions and protecting stored cardholder data. Learn how one can meet the PCI requirements for wireless networks and go beyond it and truly secure ones network...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Risk, Readiness and Redundancy: PCI Compliance Automation With Symantec Control Compliance Suite
White Papers In June 2001, Visa mandated the Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) for merchants and financial institutions handling its card transactions. For most of this decade, the major credit card companies have been aggressively developing...
[August 5, 2009, 1:21]
PCI DSS Made Easy: Addressing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
White Papers Organizations that fail to comply, risk not being allowed to handle cardholder data and fines of up to $500,000 if the data is lost or stolen. Consequently, organizations that accept payment card transactions are duly bound to comply with PCI DSS...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
PCI DSS Made Easy
White Papers Organizations that fail to comply, risk not being allowed to handle cardholder data and fines of up to $500,000 if the data is lost or stolen. Consequently, organizations that accept payment card transactions are duly bound to comply to PCI DSS by...
[July 14, 2009, 1:19]
PCI and Visa CISP Compliance: What These Standards Mean to the Independent Grocer and Regional Chain - And How Storenext Helps You Meet Them
White Papers In 2001, Visa implemented "CISP" - the Cardholder Information Security Program. The PCI Data Security Standards ("DSS") describe how retailers must keep card data and networks (with payments data) secure, how they must maintain a clear security...
[April 16, 2008, 1:02]
Payment Card Industry Security Standards
White Papers PCI security standards are technical and operational requirements set by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council to protect cardholder data. The standards globally govern all merchants and organizations that store, process or transmit...
[July 13, 2009, 1:21]
The How and Why of PCI
White Papers Compliance involves building and maintaining a secure network, protecting cardholder data, maintaining an ongoing vulnerability management program, implementing strong access controls and creating and maintaining an effective security policy.
[September 9, 2009, 1:23]
A Solution to Auditor's Dilemma for the Payment Card Industry?: How to Ensure PCI DSS Compliancy in the Organization
White Papers Under PCI regulations, all merchants that accept credit cards are required to comply with requirements that call for encrypted transmission of cardholder data, periodic network scans, logical and physical access controls, activity monitoring and...
[July 13, 2009, 0:00]
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard: An Introductory Overview
White Papers The primary objective of PCI-DSS is to establish a set of requirements to protect cardholder information. Any merchant or service provider that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder payment data is required to be PCI compliant.
[July 13, 2009, 0:00]
Trevance
Downloads Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) Payment Application Best Practices (PABP). Set it up in minutes, then sit back while Trevance processes up to 30 authorizations per second in real time while simultaneously processing batches of over...
[March 31, 2007, 11:57]
Barclaycard fights phishers with password generator
News This raises the bar significantly, especially if you are doing transactions from a not-so-trusted PC or over the telephone," he said.nCipher, Barclaycard's technology partner on the card reader project, estimates that between 35 and 40 percent of...
[July 5, 2004, 17:35]
MasterCard accused of online fraud
News MasterCard said that the suit is without merit and the company's rules are meant to "protect merchants by requiring that the (customer) promptly pay its merchant for all MasterCard transactions and by affording certain protections against bogus...
[May 14, 2003, 9:08]
PCI DSS Compliance With IBM Power i
White Papers When assessing the current security status, one must first gather all necessary security information: policies, change controls, network diagrams, cardholder data flow, location of repositories, etc. During recent years, merchants have been a...
[July 13, 2009, 1:21]
E-commerce fraud takes a toll on sales
News MasterCard, meanwhile supports two programs, the Universal Cardholder Authentication Field standard and Secure Payment Application, designed to authenticate online consumers. Merchants were rejecting around 5 percent of Internet transactions, on...
[March 4, 2002, 15:39]
US payment processor in credit data breach
News The company said that while its payment-processing systems had been compromised, no retailer information or cardholder Social Security numbers had been exposed. The compromise came to light after Visa and MasterCard approached Heartland citing...
[January 21, 2009, 15:42]
Mondex demos smartcard-enabled mobile e-commerce
News The card lets users on the GSM network make immediate cash payments and enables cardholder verification security for both the consumer and service provider. A microchip in the card keeps a record of the last ten transactions and the cash can be...
[November 17, 1999, 13:46]
Massive online credit card fraud
News However, for the individual cardholder, the breach is a mere nuisance, he said. While there is a certain risk that credit cards sent over the Internet can be intercepted, databases contain huge amounts of personal information that comes from all...
[December 13, 2000, 9:20]
A Secure Network for Credit Card Transactions
White Papers The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) is a set of requirements developed to help companies avoid these problems by ensuring the security of credit cardholder data. U.S.merchants, as well as those in Europe and Asia doing...
[July 13, 2009, 1:21]
A Secure Network for Credit Card Transactions: Addressing PCI Compliance With Juniper Networks Unified Access Control
White Papers The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) is a set of requirements developed to help companies avoid these problems by ensuring the security of credit cardholder data. U.S.merchants, as well as those in Europe and Asia doing...
[July 13, 2009, 0:00]
