Channel partners honing their compliance skills will soon be able to add one more to their portfolio with the launch of a new Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council certification program specifically targeting integrators and resellers.
via PCI Council Launches Reseller Cert Program | Channelnomics.
The latest PCI compliance stats—out this week—show trivial changes from the prior report, with Level 2 and Level 3 retailers slightly increasing compliance. Level 2 went from 91 percent at the end of December 2011 to 92 percent as of March 31, 2012, and Level 3 also increased by 1 percent, from 58 percent to 59 percent. The largest chains, the Level 1s (processing more than 6 million Visa transactions annually), stayed exactly the same, at 98 percent.
MasterCard and Visa are warning banks about a possible security breach at a U.S.-based processor that could affect millions of credit-card holders
via Mastercard, Visa Warn of Possible Security Breach: Report – US Business News – CNBC.
The FTC alleged that after the personalized offers feature was enabled, extensive information was collected from the user and transmitted to Upromise, including the names of all websites visited, all links clicked by the user and information that users entered into certain web pages, such as usernames, passwords, search terms, credit card information, expiration dates, security codes and social security numbers. The FTC alleged that there was no way a user would be able to detect the extent of the data being collected by the Upromise software without special software and technical expertise
A study published today by merchant data security leader SecurityMetrics shows 71 percent of merchants who entered the study were found to store unencrypted payment card data in 2011, which is an increase of 8 percent since 2010.
via Study sees 8 percent rise in unencrypted payment card data | TechJournal South.
Marking the PCI Council’s 5th year in existence, close to 1600 stakeholders representing 650 organizations globally attended the 2011 meetings, compared with 323 at the Council’s first gathering in 2007
via 2011 PCI Community Meetings Break Record for Number of Attendees – MarketWatch.
At the Special Interest Group (SIG) session at this year’s PCI Community Meeting, a number of presentations were made regarding the potential PCI SIG topics that will be addressed in the coming year.
via This Year’s PCI SSC SIG Proposals « PCI Guru.
Security specialists Imperva has reported that it’s found stolen card for as little as $2 for a Visa card, climbing up to $6 for a Discovery card. The particular site selling these details is not, I would argue, at the cheap end of the market
via Going cheap: stolen credit cards | DaniWeb.