thanks to Dave Manouchehri for letting us know about the free parking at TD Place Stadium in Ottawa earlier this week! I wonder if credit card data was at risk? 🙂 Parking is hard. Ad below this line:
Just a random question from /r/pcicompliance. PCI Compliance – help with anti-virus, Firewall and Audit Logs Curious if anyone has affordable solutions for anti-virus software, firewall and audit logs. Trying to help two retail stores become compliant. They use a POS software (that is itself PCI Compliance). They have macbooks at each location to swipe…
Digital Transactions magazine has written up a piece on Microsoft’s entry into payments. Ad below this line:
I like the information that the restaurant chain P.F.Chang has provided regarding their POS system data breach. The 33 affected locations are listed and instructions on how to register for an identity monitoring service are included. Other info provided: 1. WHAT HAPPENED? 2. WHEN DID P.F. Chang’s DISCOVER THIS INCIDENT? 3. WHEN DID THIS INCIDENT…
Did you see the CERT warning about the POS malware named Backoff? The Ars Technica article is a nice summary of the US CERT piece which is technical. The malware retrieves track data from the memory of systems it is installed on. Combined with key logging, update capabilities and a low antivirus detection rate, its…
On June 3rd Sam’s Club (owned by WalMart) announced a new Sam’s Club MasterCard with “chip enabled technology” that makes the card more difficult to duplicate. The press release has more info on the non-security benefits of the card than the security ones. It is not clear if this will be a proprietary WalMart implementation,…
Russia’s work on a new ground-up payment system is full steam ahead at the moment. I would expect that security will be integrated from the start as the gentleman who will be heading up the effort is being released early from prison and has allegedly attacked rivals with a botnet, developed a malicious anti-virus program,…
