By Margaret Collins BLOOMBERG NEWS
Sierra Morgan was billed $12,000 on her health care credit card in November for liposuction, a procedure she never requested or received.
“It’s depressing to know that someone used my name and knows so much about me,” said Morgan, 31, a respiratory therapist from Modesto, Calif.
There were more than 275,000 cases in [...]
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There is a big misconception out there that PCI DSS compliance does not apply to us, we are relatively small company
The fact is PCI DSS must be met by all organizations that transmit, process or store payment card data. Also business owner want to know what is ROI on PCI compliance. [...]
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By Erin Allday, SF Chronicle
Hackers may have had access to personal information for about 600 UCSF patients as a result of an Internet “phishing” scam, campus officials said Tuesday.
The security breach occurred in September when a faculty physician in the UCSF School of Medicine provided a user name and password in response to [...]
By Jaikumar Vijayan
The rush by shoppers to the Web makes the season a great time for online retailers. It’s also a great time for hackers looking to steal data and money from the unwary millions expected to search for great deals online.
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Here we have another unnecessary credit card data breach in a small organization which resulted in a loss of customers data demonstrating poor baseline security of small organization in this case a restaurant. Small organizations are not ready for PCI Compliance. Checkout why PCI Compliance is essential and why small merchants have to comply. [...]
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45 States followed California when they introduced “SB1386″, the Security Breach Information Act, which has specific and restrictive privacy breach reporting requirements.
Similarly to the SB1386 Law, California, Massachusetts & Texas are already looking at making PCI DSS Law and history tells us that when California moves, everyone else follows!
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50 Ways to Protect Your Identity and Your Credit: Everything You Need to Know About Identity Theft, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, and Credit Reports
Primary Account Number (PAN) is a
“12-digit or 19-digit numeric code embossed on the face side of a bank card, and also encoded in the Magnetic Stripe. The primary account number is a [...]
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Credit Repair Kit For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
Credit card authorization sequence:
1) Creditholder swipes card at merchant. A request is sent to merchants bank
2) Merchants bank “asks” processor to determine the cardholder bank
3) Processing network finds cardholders bank and request approval for purchase
4) Cardholders bank approves purchase and generates a approval [...]
During this down turn economy organized cyber crime is a booming underground business these days. Most of the security expert and FBI agree that cybercrimes are on the rise and pose a biggest threat to US vital infrastructure. Cybercriminals are thieves in cyberspace who will swipe the sensitive data and sell to other criminals in [...]
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California was the first state in the nation to pass a data breach notification law in 2003, and it’s now planning to broaden the notification for companies doing business in the state. Notification will require specific information about the breach to the consumer and send notices to the state authorities at [...]
