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Heartland Breach: Inside Look at the Plaintiffs’ Case
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsMaster Complaint Details Events Before, During and After the Landmark BreachPrior to the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach, company executives misrepresented their “state of the art” security measures, says a new document filed in the class action suit against the payments processor. This document lays out for the first time a sequence of events and statements made by Heartland executives about security measures and actions before, during and after the breach. Following is a timeline of events highlighted in the master complaint against Heartland.
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MasterCard Vs. Visa: Dueling Compliance Philosophies
Posted on August 19th, 2009 No commentsPeople don’t seem to “get” MasterCard. For most of the last 4 years, MasterCard has been criticized for their apparent willingness to let Visa play the “bad guy” who issues fines to acquiring banks (and, through them, to merchants), who extends the PCI standards to application vendors (through PABP, now PA-DSS) and who generally takes the heat for PCI.Now MasterCard is taking what can only be called a “get tough” policy, issuing larger fines and, most significantly, forcing both Level 1 and Level 2 merchants to use assessors rather than take on the task of self-assessment.
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Is MasterCard Ready To Sing “You’re So Fined”?
Posted on July 30th, 2009 No commentsAn intriguing blog discussion over at the Verisign security site, with the suggestion made that MasterCard has rapidly started upping its fines for PCI compliance issues. As the post asks, “Who poked MasterCard hard enough to wake them from hibernation?”“MasterCard traditionally fined post-breach and, in some cases, we learned that MasterCard would fine merchants small, but consistent amounts to get the attention of accountants and finance gurus inside the company,” the post said, adding that times have now changed
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MasterCard to Fine Merchants for Non Compliance
Posted on July 28th, 2009 No commentsOK, SOMEONE out there has some explaining to do. Like, right now. Who poked MasterCard hard enough to wake them from hibernation
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Network Solutions Data Breach Hits 574,000 Consumers
Posted on July 28th, 2009 No commentsAn E-Commerce software company that, as part of its service for small retailers accepted payment card data and then sent it to various processors, has found itself on the wrong end of a breached company news release, confirming that payment data from some 574,000 customers—processed through 4,343 of its small retail clients—had been accessed. The stolen data included transaction specifics, card account numbers, names and consumer addresses. The vendor—Network Solutions—had been certified PCI compliant (you just knew that was coming, no?)The details include an early PCI attempt to try and walk back the certification, retailers complaining about their names appearing in a breach notification letter and the vendor bringing in General Dynamics, a familiar name from the data breach probes of both TJX and Hannaford.
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Wal-Mart, Eyeing Mobile And Online, To Revamp Its Privacy Policy
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 No commentsOne month from now, Wal-Mart will unveil a radically changed privacy policy, one that envisions a merged channel world, where consumers are as likely to use their phone and laptop to interact with Wal-Mart as much as they would walk into a store or speak with a call center. The policy talks about data not merely from a PCI and a purchase history perspective, but also from a security camera’s and cellphone’s perspective.”Our goal is to have it be completely comprehensive, for both online and offline,” said Zoe Strickland, the Wal-Mart VP who serves as the chain’s Chief Privacy Officer
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Car Warranty Phone Calls
Posted on May 18th, 2009 No commentsRebecca got the call, I got the call- almost everyone I know got the call. It starts with “Our records indicate that the factory warranty on your vehicle has expired or may be expiring soon….” Others reported auto dialers contacting them about lowering interest rates, or other services
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Heartland Data Breach: MasterCard Introduces ‘Tamper-Resistant’ Chip
Posted on May 18th, 2009 No commentsMasterCard will use a cryptographic countermeasure technology in its smart credit cards to protect them from being tampered with or read by hackers.
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Gumblar Malware Exploit Circulating
Posted on May 18th, 2009 No comments(added May 18, 2009) A full-content feed is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.atom
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