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Breach Investigations Show Alarming Advances In Malware
Posted on January 31st, 2011 No commentsHackers continue to improve malware, third-party vendors continue to serve their clients poorly when it comes to data security, and the evidence points to Russia as the single biggest source of attacks on databases. Those are some of the highlights in the new Global Security Report 2011…
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Does Visa’s Encryption Statement Offer A “Tacit Endorsement”?
Posted on October 8th, 2009 No commentsVisa’s just-announced best practices are designed to provide guidance and give tacit endorsement to existing end-to-end encryption and, to some extent, tokenization. Merchants are likely to see it as “something else to do” and as further evidence that the card brands will continue to go their own way relative to data security, despite the PCI DSS industry standards.But PCI Columnist David Taylor sees something else interesting here. “For the last 4-5 years, companies have been told that achieving PCI compliance is much easier if they segment their network.
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