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of SID, the Fed, and EMVs
Often, we wish the news would be otherwise: Surely something other than yet-another-lapse- in-data-security must be in the payments news cycle. Well there is. But there’s also the lapse. In payments...
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New Fintech Rules? The Yin and the Yang
Along with all the turmoil occupying our headlines these days, comes some under-the-radar discussion of potential new rules that could affect the financial sector — or at least the financial technology...
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You May Need More Help Than Your Antivirus Software Can Give
A recent article in Slate’s “Future Tense” section has some sobering news: “In 2005, Panda Software reported that a new strain of malware was discovered every 12 minutes. In 2016, the cybersecurity...
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Credit Card Processing Risk Management Solutions
Busy Seasons and Transaction Security—Are You Putting Your Customers at Risk? With summer only a couple of months away, now is a good time for seasonal or tourism-oriented businesses to give additional...
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AVP Solutions Launches “SID” (SmartIDentity for Business) Training; Join us...
Our mission at AVP Solutions is to equip our merchants with the most comprehensive services and the highest level of customer service available. In that tradition, we are proud to announce the...
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May the Force Not Be With You: Guard Against Fraudulent Force-Posted...
Among the many types of hacks and frauds we warn about, or sadly have to post about (a report discussed by Reuters this week finds that “cyber security breaches erode companies’ share prices...
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Data Breaches Hit “All Time High”— Can We Keep Them From Getting Worse?...
All Time High was a good name for a James Bond film theme. But it’s an unwelcome descriptor for a trend in data breaches and hacks. As we wrote earlier this year, Insurance Business Magazine reported,...
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Breach Days: Equifax and Beyond (updated)
When this post first appeared last summer, we called it “The Breach Days of August,” sounding various alarums from what had been the just concluded Black Hat conference in Las Vegas (a gathering of...
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Now That Future’s Passed: A Look Back at 2017 (updated)
“It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” we wrote as 2016 became 2017, citing a Guardian article that had proclaimed our previous year as “The Year of the Hack,” and what it meant for the year...
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The Equifax Breach and Your Business
The Equifax Breach and Your Business—What You Need to Know and Why it Affects You In early September, Equifax announced that it suffered one of the largest security breaches in U.S. history, putting...
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