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Cars, Cards, Lug-nuts, and Lug-heads
Imagine the card world were actually the car world. We might have the Protective Car Initiative Security Standards Council–another PCI, not unlike our own Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. It would be composed of representatives of the various Car…
Tagged with: Breach, Fraud, Merchants, PCI, scam, Theft
Posted in Fraud Reduction, Identity Theft, Uncategorized
Posted in Fraud Reduction, Identity Theft, Uncategorized
The Trouble with PCI – Part 2 of 3
I recently came across another blog posting titled “When Will The PCI SSC And Card Brands Stop The Mobile Payment Insanity?” After reading the posting, I thought I’d ask a different question. When Will The PCI SSC amend its mission to…
Tagged with: Authentication, Authorization, counterfeit, Dynamic, E2EE, Encryption, Fraud, Merchants, PCI, PTS, scam, SRED, Static, Theft
Posted in Fraud Reduction, Identity Theft, Uncategorized
Posted in Fraud Reduction, Identity Theft, Uncategorized
The Trouble with PCI – Part 1 of 3
Are we on a Treadmill or a Road to Security? The trouble with PCI is much like the man on the treadmill, expending lots of energy, going nowhere, and so focused on not falling down that he cannot remember why…
Tagged with: Authentication, Breach, Card, counterfeit, PCI, scam
Posted in Fraud Reduction, Identity Theft, Uncategorized
Posted in Fraud Reduction, Identity Theft, Uncategorized
The Socially Engineered Scam
Have you ever heard of a scam where the bad guy places a free standing kiosk in a store or ATM lobby and the kiosk offers a FREE service like, “Swipe here to clean your card”? Some of you might…
Occupy PCI
Imagine you’re a merchant who just spent millions of dollars securing your point of sale systems with the latest endpoint cardholder data protection. You followed every PCI-DSS requirement, as well as the guidelines for point-to-point encryption and the best practices…
