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On February 28, 2014

Hackers have encroached all areas. Way beyond mobile and wireless…

Hackers are "Hacking all the things". We are starting to hear about environments like thermostats, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning using web interfaces and http custom protocols.  Those are big security issues. Next, over the last several months there have been numerous cases of hackers ta ...

On February 26, 2014

Verizon 2014 PCI Compliance Report – Major revelations and suggestions

The 2014 Verizon report indicates that 9 out of 10 failed their PCI DSS baseline assessment. Here are some excerpts from the report:

• “Organizations that are breached tend to be less compliant with PCI DSS than the average of organizations in our resear ...
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On February 13, 2014

PCI DSS 3.0: New and updated requirements

This was listed in one of the articles about updates on PCI DSS 3.0.  There is too much going on in the retail world with constantly increasing breaches, both high and low profile ones.  Hence all the fuss about data security and compliance.  Coincidentally, this is the year for transitioning to ...

On January 7, 2014

PCI DSS 3.0 highlights

1. More rigorous penetration testing Controls 11.3 and 11.3.4 now require merchants to verify methods used to segment the cardholder data environment (CDE) from other areas. 2. Inspecting POS systems regularly Requirement ...

On October 31, 2013

Omega stops at nothing to protect your data. On Halloween day, our Security Strategists go the entire mile.

Today, Brett the Red Ranger cam ...