We know EMV should be installed in your credit card acceptance machines by October of 2015 (so already 9 months past) as per PCI compliance standard. The New Pin and Chip cards are also called EMV cards (Europay Mastercard and Visa). Pin and Chip logo above is from UK site http://www.chipandpin.co.uk/ – and it looks good. Above … Read more
Security and thus also Cybersecurity needs to be thought of in a different manner. Education about information security has to be put together well. We have to understand the whole environment and people need to follow what corporate recommends for security reasons. Why? because individuals should not create corporate blindspots either knowing or unknowing. (image … Read more
Why are there constant patches for security problems that are inside software? Why??? Why do we have New Security breaches? every year new ones are found and hackers find them to hack computers (which happen to have this breached software). At the end of last year (2015) everyone was being circumspect and reviewed what happened … Read more
The latest information about a Romanian hacker getting into the ” Hillary Clinton server” interests me. The hacker claimed that hackers sometimes do not leave a trail. So I don’t want to focus on whether it happened or not(or the ramifications of he hack – politics etc). Just on the comment of not leaving a trail … Read more
PCI – Payment Card Industry v3.2¹ is now in effect As of April 2016 published date. So what has changed? What else do merchant vendors and providers have to do to keep “DSS Compliant” status. Remember our post on December 2015² ? It noted that SSL technology for Internet commerce is not good enough … Read more
