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- By Conor McGoveran
- August 16, 2011
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Visa Inc has just annouced that the Visa TIP program will be extended to the US in 2012. This follows Visa Europe's announcement in Feburary of this year of the same program for merchants in the EU region. So what is the likely impact of this announc...
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- By Conor McGoveran
- June 28, 2011
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The PCI SSC released an updated version of its prioritised approach earlier in May with a small number of updates to milestone setting for specific requirements. One of these requirements is 12.1.2 which has moved from milestone 6 to milestone 1. Thi...
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- By Conor McGoveran
- June 24, 2011
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Today the PCI SSC issued a short guidance document based on the work undertaken by the mobile working group. This follows on from an FAQ on the subject issued earlier in the month. In summary they have created three categories of mobile devices that ...
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- By Conor McGoveran
- May 8, 2010
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The PCI Security Standards Council has released details of dates for the anticipated Internal Security Assessor (ISA) courses. The first course will be run in Sydney Australia in May with the next three in the US from June to September and the final ...
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- By Conor McGoveran
- April 29, 2010
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The Visa PCI DSS merchant training in Zagreb on the 20th and 21st of April was another successful training session. There were over 60 delegates in attendance and the two day course provide all who attended with the information they needed to go back...
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- By Conor McGoveran
- April 28, 2010
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Federal Security Goes Realtime
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.
The US Federal government is shaping up to require agencies to file real time reports on their information security to a central website under a new set of contini...
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- By Conor McGoveran
- April 28, 2010
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The two day PCI DSS merchant training in London was a great experience for both the delegates that attended and 'us', the Onformonics trainers. Over the two days we covered the entire standard and had many interesting discussion about the interpretat...
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- By Conor McGoveran
- April 20, 2010
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Wired have a good story about a recent case of a suspected insider compromise leading to fraudulent withdrawls from ATM machines over a seven month period. This is a good example of why the insider threat cannot be ignored.
The full article can be fo...
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- By Conor McGoveran
- March 30, 2010
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Washington state have followed both Nevada and Minnesota to be the third state to incorporate the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) into state law. The state house and senate passed HB 1149 to ammend the states existing data brea...
