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Largest Security Breach Ever –

January 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Wall Street Journal technology section reports this morning in a story by Ben Worthen a record security breach of Heartland Payment Systems a company in Princeton New Jersey.  It looks like the company’s web site runs on Windows servers.
Card Data Breached, Firm Says
A New Jersey credit-card processor disclosed a data breach that analysts said may [...]

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PCI DSS compliance for dummies

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments

One of our longer running projects for while now has been to become PCI DSS compliant. For those of you that have never heard of it, PCI stands for Payment Card Industry and DSS stands for Data Security Standards. Basically what it comes down to is that the credit card companies have gotten together and [...]

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