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Stealing Your Credit Card Number

By David Dorf on November 24, 2008 1:21 PM

I guess its possible that credit card theft has been happening all along but just wasn't widely reported in the press. But it seems to me that large scale attacks are just as prevalent now as they were four years...

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Whitelists are Better than Blacklists

By David Dorf on October 31, 2008 2:07 PM

As any retailer knows, there are 12 requirements in the Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations. Requirement 5 is "use and regularly update anti-virus software." The problem with running anti-virus on registers is that they take precious resources, both CPU cycles...

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Securing the Retail Enterprise

By David Dorf on October 20, 2008 8:30 AM

Every retailer is well aware of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) and its Data Security Standard. Breaches exposing credit card data at several prominent retailers have been publicized ad nausea. On the one hand I'm pleased to get increased questions...

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