Mike Mitchell, who serves as chairman of the PCI Security Standards Council, says mobile is a focus for leaders in the payment security space. So does the PCI Council expect emerging tech to influence the PCI-DSS?
The PCI Council has released a new certification program aimed at training employees, not companies. What makes this program unique, and why is the council coming out with it now? Bob Russo explains.
The PCI Security Standards Council aims to clarify points in existing data security standards that have spurred confusion. So what areas are proving the most puzzling? PCI's Bob Russo shares insights.
In the wake of recent merchant breaches, a new PCI training program aims to enhance point-of-sale security. Which payment card risks does this program address? PCI Council chair Bob Russo explains.
Heartland Payment Systems, which suffered a massive breach in 2009, is working to enhance POS security at the merchant level. What steps is this processor taking, and what role would it like to see card-issuing banks play?
Global Payments this week plans to provide updates about the systems breach that it discovered in March. Learn about the details, including the potential financial impact, that the processor plans to share.
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Law enforcement is not revealing details about the POS breach that hit Penn Station, but one investigator says the number of locations affected by the attack will continue to grow.
Global Payments Inc., the breached payments processor, now says the scope of its self-discovered data breach may be broader than initially reported and involve personal data collected from merchant customers.
Restaurant chain Penn Station says debit and credit card details may have been exposed in a breach that targeted 43 franchised locations. But what was the nature of the scheme?
New advisories from Visa suggest that payments processor Global Payments Inc. may have been breached in June 2011 - nine months earlier than initially reported.
Payments processor First Data warns about an uptick in trolling - hackers sniffing networks for easy access to merchants' point-of-sale systems. What can banks do to help merchants prevent breaches?
If you handle critical data, you've got to be humble, advises Bob Carr, CEO of breached processor Heartland Payments System. "Anyone that thinks they're not going to be breached is being naïve."
Gartner fraud expert Avivah Litan shares ideas about how lessons learned from the Global Payments data breach can help security practitioners mitigate card-fraud risks and prevent future incidents.
What's the best strategy for communications after a data breach, like the one suffered by Global Payments Inc.? Bob Carr, CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, discusses what to say in the weeks following a breach.
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