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PCI-DSS compliance work continues despite doubts
The funny thing about PCI-DSS is that it generally works, but not everyone believes it. A recent survey from the Ponemon Institute and Imperva--the 2011 PCI-DSS Compliance Trends Study--shows that
Barclays programmer gets four years in TJX scandal
Alberto Gonzalez was the mastermind of the massive, headline generating data breach at Heartland Payment Systems, TJX and others, but it's clear he had some help from some former employees of top
Time for chip and PIN cards?
Credit and debit card ( credit card news) security has been a huge issue as of late ( financial data security news), given all the breaches at Heartland Payment Systems and others. The crime wave has
Banks still exposed for Heartland meltdown?
You have to give Heartland Payment Systems credit for tackling their security issues head on. It remains to be seen whether their end-to-end encryption systems will become an industry standard ( data
Big moment for end-to-end security?
If there was anything to be gained from the embarrassing data breaches of 2009--often at the hands of master hacker Alberto Gonzalez--it was this: More attention on the movement toward end-to-end
10 top security threats of 2009
Information security was perhaps the top news item of 2009. We spent a lot of time talking about it--in all its forms. The issue is multi-faceted and getting more complex by the minute. Reuters
Heartland to settle cyber-breach class action
Recall that Heartland Payment System's big data breach led to a cornucopia of legal activity. More than 31 lawsuits were filed against it; about 700 banks announced losses as a result of the
The fate of a master hacker
Alberto Gonzalez--the scourge of Heartland Payments Systems, TJX and many other firms--was in many ways the face of corporate data insecurity last year, when the anxiety about customer data seemed to
Visa releases data encryption best practices
Visa has released end-to-end encryption best-practice guidelines that represent an initial stab at boosting efforts across companies "to develop a common, open standard while providing guidance to
Government informant indicted for ID fraud...again
Albert Gonzalez is well known in the murky world of identity theft. He was just charged with plotting to steal 130 million credit and debit card accounts--the biggest scheme ever, according to media
