Companies are innovating all the time, which means new platforms and devices are constantly coming into play. These emerging technologies often generate, transmit and/or store vital business and customer data. At the same time the bad guys are also innovating. These hackers are organized, agile … Read more
Know Your Customer There’s an acronym we use in the payments industry: KYC. With KYC, which is Know Your Customer, we’re referring to ISOs’ and acquirers’ need to know the type of business each of their merchants conducts. If due diligence for KYC doesn’t take place, … 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
ControlScan advises its customers and clients with eCommerce websites, or those which handle sensitive data, that a critical vulnerability has been discovered affecting the OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta implementation of the SSL protocol. The vulnerability is known as ‘Heartbleed,’ and should be seen as an … Read more