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If You Take Credit Cards By Phone or Mail - You Need to Read About Visa's October Mandate
PCI Rules Aren't the Only Ones You Need to Comply With Most organizations concerned with payment compliance are focused on the PCI Data Security...
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Equifax Move Over, Here Comes The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Scandal!
We've been following security and breaches for a long time and they have been getting unquestionably worse. While mega-credit card breaches seem to...
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PCI DSS May Require Pulling Up Your SOX (or ISO)
Executives and managers in organizations preparing for their first onsite PCI security assessment may feel confident that having passed a SOX audit...
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Understanding "Connected-to" - Is The Internet In Scope For PCI DSS?
PCI DSS is all about scope. Getting scope right or wrong is perhaps the single most critical factor determining the ultimate success or failure of an...
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8-digit BIN Issues and Risks Remain after PCI Truncation Rules Clarified
Last month we wrote this article about issues arising from the addition of new BIN ranges and the lack of clear guidance specifically with 16-digit...
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In The Payments World, Even Canadians Have ZIP Codes!
Many Canadians traveling to the US have experienced the frustration of running into a form of address verification. This is a common extra check...
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Hurricane Harvey: How To Avoid Scams When Donating To Natural Disaster Charity Groups
It's hard to imagine a natural disaster until it starts happening in your own backyard. Unfortunately, the people of Texas have experienced and...
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A Misadventure on THE AIRLINE THAT SHALL NOT BE NAMED
Whether you embrace or eschew the label of Road Warrior, if you've traveled extensively for business then you have experienced the trials and...
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NIST Moves on Sweet32 - 3DES, Blowfish, and Others - Mostly Unsafe
Now is the time to stop using 64-bit block length ciphers such as 3DES (TDEA) and Blowfish in general purpose applications of cryptography. In 2016,...