PCI DDS 101 A Journey, Not A Destination by Brett Callow and Rhonda Turner Almost everybody has a credit card, and most people have more than one card. Between 1995 and 2006, the number of cards in circulation almost doubled. Unfortunately, credit card fraud has increased just as rapidly. In the U.S. alone, card issuers … Continue reading Your responsibilities as a merchant in preventing credit card theft & fraud-PCI compliance →

Pressure mounts for retailers to comply with payment card data security standards By Paul Demery For six years, credit card companies have been threatening retailers with fines and loss of credit card status if they don’t comply with the payment card industry data security standards. And retailers have been routinely ignoring them. Now that might … Continue reading Fines to begin for non compliance of PCI, etc. →

Visa U.S.A. announced today that it is expanding the criteria of its merchant validation levels for compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Visa’s move is designed to decrease the risk of data compromises by shifting higher-volume merchants across all payment channels into a more rigorous compliance validation category. The most … Continue reading Visa PCI security update →

EMV – the Silent Migration Posted November 7, 2013 “The EMV migration is happening, but very silently. The issuers seem all to be prepared for it and are planning to issue chip cards next year, and some have already started.” I’ve come to realise that the EMV migration in the US is a silent one, … Continue reading EMV – the Silent Migration →

Some of the biggest payment processors in the United States are assessing new merchant fees related to compliance with section 6050W of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). However, the Internal Revenue Service indicated charging merchants for production or verification of taxpayer identification numbers (TINs) and business names, or for processing and filing 1099-K forms, is … Continue reading IRS says no merchant fees for 1099-K reporting: Who’s listening? →

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. Ticket Evolution hires former TicketNetwork staffer as deadline for funding raising nears View this article online: http://www.ticketnews.com/news/Ticket-Evolution-hires-former-TicketNetwork-staffer-as-deadline-for-funding-raising-nears081006729 Fri, Aug 6th 2010 5:23 pm EDT By Alfred Branch Jr. Insomniac Broker-owned ticket exchange Ticket Evolution this week announced the hiring of its first employee with the company’s … Continue reading Ticket Evolution hires former TicketNetwork staffer as deadline for funding raising nears →

Hi, In the past I have always recommended and continue to recommend the Way Systems terminal. It is by far the most trouble free unit while also remaining the most economical of the terminals that are fully PCI compliant. There are a few cell phone morphodites out there but any semi talented hacker can break … Continue reading prices for wireless terminals are now more affordable →