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On May 27, 2015

Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer accounts breached. Could yours be one of them?

Hackers got access to personal information of taxpayers who used the IRS online 'get transcript' application. The IRS said in a May 26 statement. "It' ...

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On May 20, 2015

It matters how a business handles the aftermath of a breach incident

No business is insusceptible to breaches. However as we have seen already, the reputation of some of the recently breached large businesses were further tarnis ...

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On May 5, 2015

One code, 1000’s of stolen card data. Let’s not at least make it this easy for the hackers.

The headline on the technology page of CNN Money recently reported: "This code can hack nearly every credit card machine in the country".  "The passcode, set by ...

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On May 4, 2015

Harbortouch POS systems breached, the latest of the large scale POS attacks.

HarbortouchIt is always the vendor's hope -- few retail POS systems have been hacked, very few customers' data have been impacted or compromised, ...

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On May 1, 2015

PCI DSS mandates merchants use PCI 3.0-compliant Service Providers

V2 PCI DSS 3.0 logoVISA's guideline in re ...

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