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PCI and the State of Security

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How Safe is Your Credit Card Data?

by Cindy Valladares

Well, that depends on who is responsible for safeguarding your credit card information. This is a case study of how Point is providing better protection to its customers, merchants in Europe. Organization Point is the leading provider of electronic payment solutions in Europe, serving every type of business that require multi-channel payment capabilities: from small [...]

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Yes, We Need More Compliance Specifications.

by Adam Montville

Some of my more recent work is centered on making sense of the available security and compliance frameworks and standards, and I’ve got to be honest with you, it’s not that easy!  While some might argue these things no longer matter, the truth is (as I’ve said before) compliance isn’t dead – it’s just going [...]

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5 things bad guys are thankful for this week

by Dwayne Melancon

For those of us living in the US, this week is when we observe Thanksgiving Day. That is followed by what’s known as “Black Friday,” which is the biggest shopping day of the year for retailers. What does that mean? Other than chaos in the shopping malls and ridiculous traffic, it means lots of credit card transactions which will certainly make the “cyber criminals” salivate.

That got me thinking: If I were a bad guy, what are 5 things I’d be thankful for this week?

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Using PCI Compliance As a Business Driver

by Cindy Valladares

Here at Tripwire we get many great customer success stories, so I’ve decided to start a series of blog posts that bring those stories to you. This week’s post focuses on a The Logic Group, a large payment processor in the UK. Organization The Logic Group solutions process in excess of three billion credit and [...]

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August and September Data Breach Roundup (Do not read if you have DBNF)

by Maya Kamoshita

***Warning: If you suffer from Data Breach Notification Fatigue, or DBNF, the contents of this blog post may not be suitable for you*** The following is a roundup of the major data breaches that occurred during August and September of 2011.     September 22nd: Alleged LulzSec hacker, Cody Kretsinger was arrested in Phoenix and [...]

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“Sweeping Out the Summer Mind Webs”

by Bret Lenmark

  Stuxnet update – I recently came across this visually stunning infographical piece on Stuxnet entitled Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus produced for Australian television. I had mentioned in a previous blog that Deputy Undersecretary of Defense William Lynn III had escalated cyberspace to the level of a frontier equal in defense worthiness as [...]

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