Guest post by Mark Pribish, Merchants Information Solutions, Inc. According to a June 4, 2019 Security Magazine article, “cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing more than $654 billion to U.S. organizations.” Personally identifiable information (PII) was the most targeted data, with … Read more
The co-owner of three restaurants in coastal Georgia, Carla had just upgraded her old POS system to far more current technology. A driving force behind the upgrade was Carla’s belief that it would make her business PCI compliant. She would get PCI compliance right, she … Read more
Got 100 grand to spare? Or would a breach be a death sentence for your small business? Seems like just about every day there’s a familiar company name in the news, along with the words “hacked” or “breached.” These are typically medium to large-sized businesses … Read more
While many payment card data breaches are easily preventable, they can and do still happen to businesses of all sizes. If your small or mid-sized business has discovered it’s been breached, the ETA’s Risk, Fraud & Security Committee and Arnall Golden Gregory LLP have produced a straightforward guide … Read more
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an advisory warning of a new POS malware that, “at the time of discovery and analysis…had low to zero percent anti-virus detection rates, which means that fully updated anti-virus engines on fully patched computers could … Read more
The recent rash of data security breaches stemming from insecure remote access and user credential management issues has prompted Visa to issue a Data Security Alert to all merchants and the acquirers who serve them. Here is the statement from Visa’s email, which ControlScan received … Read more