Today The Official Merchant Services Blog marks the triumphant return to the timely topic of PCI DSS and cardholder data security. This tantalizing topic has been touted time and again in the peerless pages of our payment processing chronicles. Days of Future Past The crafty criminals that defraud, hack and swipe courageous consumers for their […]
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This is the latest installment in The Official Merchant Services Blog’s Knowledge Base effort. We want to make the payment processing industry’s terms and buzzwords clear. We will eliminate any and all confusion merchants might have about how the industry works. At Host Merchant Services, we promise to deliver personal service and clarity. So we’re
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For today’s installment of The Official Merchant Services Blog, we are bringing you the most recent developments of the now infamous Global Payments Data Breach. Back in March When we first reported the breach, it had supposedly affected 50,000 cardholders and revolved around a taxi and parking garage company in the New York City area.
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog is just going to offer a quick update on some services Host Merchant Services provides directly for its current customers. Today our site launched a page for our current merchants to go to in order to access online assistance services. There are currently two: TRUPCI We’ve pushed our PCI
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This is the latest installment in The Official Merchant Services Blog’s Knowledge Base effort. Well we want to make the payment processing industry’s terms and buzzwords clear. We want to remove any and all confusion merchants might have about how the industry works. Host Merchant Services promises: the company delivers personal service and clarity. So we’re going to take
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Security is one of the defining internet issues of this decade. While there is not one distinct body of law that governs a company’s rights and responsibilities, there are methods to prioritize compliance efforts. This issue is relatively unique to the internet space since the laws and regulations that apply come from many different areas.
Today The Official Merchant Services Blog has a quick follow up to its ongoing coverage of the Global Payments Data Breach. The past two entries in our blog have taken a sweeping look at the big picture of data breaches and PCI DSS and how effective those security standards are. PCI Compliance is a topic
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TodayThe Official Merchant Services Blog continues looking at the bigger picture of the impact from the Global Payments Data Breach — specifically looking at the affect it’s going to have on PCI DSS as well as a little foray into State Security Breach Notification Laws. You’ll remember yesterday we highlighted some of the criticisms found in
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog is going to delve into the bigger picture of the impact that the Global Payments Data Breach is going to have on the payment processing industry. Obviously this news is going to have a huge impact on Global Payments itself. The company faces a big penalty after Visa dropped
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The Official Merchant Services Blog tackles the big news in the payment processing industry today: The Global Payments Data breach. The news of this data breach hit on Friday and the weekend has seen some wild speculation tossed about. At first there were reports that a mere 50,000 cards were compromised. Then the media upped
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog reacquaints itself with a very important topic: Security. Specifically we’re jumping back into the discussion about PCI Security standards. Consumers are using plastic, especially online, at record rates. But security is still a major concern. Credit card fraud, phishing scams, clickjacking and identity theft are all on the rise
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Today The Official Merchant Services Blog shifts its focus to the E-Commerce industry — specifically some tips we’ve found online to help small businesses with their e-commerce solution. An article written by Nova Scotian Vangie Beal details the ins and outs of ten open source online shopping carts that are available to merchants or really
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In the wake of yesterday’s blog about beefed up account security during the holiday season, The Official Merchant Services Blog is going to highlight Host Merchant Services‘ new strategic partnership with HostMySite.com. New Survey Shows PCI Still Lax The partnership is fueled by PCI Compliance, which is an important topic right now. We’ve previously cited
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The Official Merchant Services Blog has been covering the basics of payment processing, offering insight and tips on the general topics of the credit card and debit card transaction industry for merchants. Today we’re going to go a little deeper, and delve into a nuts and bolts topic: payment terminals. This kicks off the first
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The Official Merchant Services Blog has two news items related to Host Merchant Services and the transaction processing industry to announce today. PCI Compliance Initiative First, Host Merchant Services would like to announce its PCI Compliance Initiative is kicking into high gear with a new special offer from its partner HostMySite.com. Host Merchant Services is
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According to a study by Verizon, 79% of organizations were not fully compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in their initial audit in 2010. That’s about the same level as the previous year, the first year the study was done. This is distressing news since PCI Compliance is extremely important
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Here are a couple of questions asked on entrepenuer.com in an article titled How Can I Streamline My E-Commerce Operation? The questions asked were: Is it possible to allow customers who have an account on my website to pay with the click of a button without having to fill out their credit card information each
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