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Financial Data Breaches Linked To Poor Security Compliance
Posted on October 9th, 2010 No commentsVerizon finds organizations suffering losses are 50% less likely to have Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards compliance.
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City Admits Lapse in Data Release
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsNEW YORK, NY — …in what appears to have been an accidental data breach, the city provided, as part of one data set, private information from representatives of women’s groups. A data file containing information on 1,100 such groups that had registered with the city’s Commission on Women’s Issues included fields for each participant’s “secret question” and…
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Visa Releases Encryption Guidelines for Merchants
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No comments“Given the interest expressed by merchants and processors, guidance from the card brands is a critical determinant in figuring out how to move ahead with encrypting data in transit, especially absent a global standard,” said Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner, in a statement. “Companies should also be aware that if data is decrypted anywhere in their system, they are still at risk for a data breach.”
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Visa Probes Tokens, Encryption for PCI Card Data Protection
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsThe PCI Security Standards Council addressed emerging technologies at a meeting last month in Las Vegas and determined that encryption and tokenization were the top two emerging technologies deserving of attention.
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Missing laptop contains names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of 38,000
Posted on September 2nd, 2009 No commentsNaval Hospital Pensacola data loss incident circa 2009-09-02
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Strategies to Strike Back at Skimming
Posted on September 2nd, 2009 No commentsPCI Council Offers New Resource to Fight FraudSkimming – point-of-sale attacks at ATMs and sales terminals — hurts everyone, including banks, retailers and their customers. And the PCI Security Standards Council is fighting the crime with a new set of best practices for skimming prevention.
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