The success of a restaurant depends on a wide variety of factors. These factors are delicious food, great location, superior customer service, and a steady supply of funding. There are a lot of expenses involved in running a restaurant. Without financial backing, it is impossible to run a restaurant business. In the first six months …
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If you accept credit cards, you must understand and implement PCI compliance – it is required by all merchant services providers. The good news is that it’s not as hard as you think to comply, and there is plenty of support available to help you. What is PCI Compliance? Payment Card Industry Compliance (PCI) is …
If you accept credit card payments, security should be your utmost concern. Amid the PCI compliance issues, tokenization is one of the primary issues/concerns all businesses should know and understand. What is Tokenization? It sounds complicated by tokenization is literally replacing important numbers with ‘tokens’ or a string of numbers/characters for security purposes. The numbers …
Individuals who have wined and dined at theme restaurants such as the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company and the Rainforest Cafe at least once since 2016 may want to review their credit and debit card statements. According to a notice posted by restaurant giant Landry’s shortly after New Year’s Day, hackers were able to inject malware …
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It feels like a never-ending race and a battle to one-up one another: the battle against fraudsters. While the equipment we have to detect and prevent these fraudsters has been improving substantially over the previous decade, fraudsters always seem to find a way to get through eventually. One of the latest tactics is synthetic identity …
On December 19, the cyber security firm Fox-IT, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, reported that they discovered a previously-unknown infiltration of managed service provider and government computer systems in at least 10 countries, including the United States, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain. These systems covered a wide range …
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Earlier this month, a huge database containing Facebook user IDs and phone numbers of 267 million members was breached and exposed, where it was then left on the web for almost two weeks before finally being removed. According to security reasearcher Bob Diachenko, who discovered the unsecured Elasticsearch dabatase along with Comparitech, it may not …
Just one week before Christmas, the Competition and Markets Authority of the United Kingdom made an announcement that may have played a part on shares of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, losing nearly 3% on the Nasdaq. Usually, announcements related to information security issues tend to have an immediate effect on company stock, but …
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The United States is one of about a dozen countries without a mandatory national identification document; for this reason, driver’s licenses, state ID cards, passports, and even social security numbers have served as alternatives to a federal identification system that both conservatives and liberals cannot seem to agree on. Starting in October 2020, the Real …
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Over the past 15 years or so, phishing has been an unfortunately effective practice whereby a thief will make an attempt to obtain peoples’ login information to a number of websites. The fact that it’s still being used extensively to this day is a testament to just how effective a scam it is. Vade Secure …
AI has been something of a hot topic over the last few years, and many are debating whether or not its impact on human life is a good thing or a bad thing. AI is being relied upon more and more frequently by today’s enterprises, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. Here’s a look at …
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According to the 2019 Fraud Attack Index by e-commerce security company Forter, attempts at defrauding online retailers have, for the second year consecutively, increased with online electronics and food and beverage retailers seeing the biggest hits. After going through merchant and transaction data, Forter determined the rate at which e-commerce fraud attacks occur has increased …
Tokenization is an important security feature in payment processing. Designed to protect sensitive payment information, tokenization allows merchants to keep credit card information within their payment system without concern while protecting customer information. This buzzword gets a lot of attention, especially when it comes to mobile payments, but many consumers and merchants aren’t sure exactly …
Protect Your Business from Credit Card Skimmers Each year, companies sign on to take advantage of merchant services offered for credit card processing. Skimmers are quickly becoming a threat to unsuspecting customers as companies rely more heavily than ever on point of sale services for their businesses. As a merchant, you want to protect your …
As a merchant, network security should be a top concern when it comes to credit card processing. The most vulnerable place for credit card data is on the merchant side of the transaction before it’s sent to the payment processor. This is why PCI compliance is important to ensure the security of a merchant’s payment …
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Whole Foods has been in the news lately due to its recent acquisition by Amazon, which brought about in-store discounts for Amazon Prime members. Unfortunately, not everything is peachy at Whole Foods: in late September, the grocery outlet suffered a large-scale data breach, in which several of its point-of-sale systems in their taprooms and …
Data Breach after Data Breach The chaos of the Equifax data breach has left nearly every American feeling violated and confused. Hackers stole Social Security Numbers, birthdates, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and credit card numbers. Now they can use this information to rack up charges, open new accounts, steal benefit checks, and more. Secure payment …
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For internet giant Yahoo, the year 2016 cannot be over soon enough. The legendary internet services portal and search engine has been losing significant market share over the years, but two major security issues in 2016 may have compromised its future. Yahoo has been involved in talks with American telecommunications giant Verizon about a possible …