Posts Tagged ‘Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard’

PCI SSC releases highlights for 2.0 changes

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PCI SSC has pre-announced the summary of changes for expected PCI 2.0 in October 2010. Based on summary report most of the changes are clarification or guidance.
According to Bob Russo, general manager of the PCI Security Standards Council.
“This version is 2.0, and the connotation is that there will be major changes, but [...]

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Taking Credit Card Security Seriously

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PCI DSS v1.2: A Practical Guide to Implementation
By David F. Carr @ Forbes
The easiest way for small businesses to address the information security requirements imposed by credit card companies is the wrong way. I’m talking about lying and praying.
In 2004 the major credit card companies got together to define a [...]

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Mary’s Pizza hit by hackers

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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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2010 Compliance Laws

Image by purpleslog via FlickrIn 2010 there will be two important compliance laws introduced which will affect the majority of North American organizations and many global organization too.
45 US States followed California when they introduced “SB1386“, the Security Breach Information Act, which has specific and restrictive privacy breach reporting requirements.

From the 1st January 2010, ALL [...]

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Hackers steal credit-card numbers from restaurant customers

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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