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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Capping Interchange Could Hurt Consumers - The Economist

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Editor's Note: Earlier today I linked to the hearings on Interchange. The media has blasted the public with 7-Eleven's one-sided p...

Verifone and Heartland Engage in E3 Dueling Lawsuits

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Encryption debate heads to court The Green Sheet : The race for card data security superiority has taken an unusual turn with two of the mos...

First Data And PayPal Team Up To Offer New Online Payment Services For Star® Network Cardholders

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ATLANTA and SAN JOSE, Calif. - Oct. 08, 2009 - Global electronic commerce and payments processing leader First Data today announced an agre...

Cardlytics names SVP of Bank Sales

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Atlanta, Oct. 8, 2009 -- Cardlytics, a provider of targeted, card-based, merchant-funded rewards technology, has added former CheckFree vice...

Fortinet Joins PCI Security Standards Council

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SUNNYVALE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 10/06/09 -- Fortinet® -- a market-leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat...

RSA and VeriSign Team Up On Cloud-Based, Two-Factor Authentication Offering

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Technical and Sales Partnership of Two "Best-in-Class" Authentication Providers Broadens Options for Customers by Enabling the Ver...

Electronic Payment Exchange Welcomes New Visa Best Practices for Data Field Encryption

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Electronic Payment Exchange (EPX), a leading merchant acquirer and payment processor, said today that the recent Visa release of data field ...

Typing Mostly Misunderstood

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Over the course of the last couple of months I have blogged on the weaknesses of SSL.  In fact, the new improved EV (Extended Validation) SS...

Compuware to Acquire Gomez for $295 Million

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Lexington, Massachusetts, October 7, 2009 Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) and Gomez yesterday announced the signing of a definitive agr...

Interchange Fee Hearing Today....Click to Watch Webcast

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H.R. 2382 (Interchange Fees) Hearing Scheduled for Today October 8th... Interchange Bill Scheduled for House Committee Hearing Thursday, Oct...

Canadian Debit Shakeup

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Green Sheet - In the fall of 2008, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Worldwide revealed plans to introduce their branded PIN-debit cards into Cana...

V/MC Shares Rise on Optimism over Interchange Legislation?

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Maybe the Interchange Bill isn't going to affect MasterCard and Visa as much as some analysts originally thought. Yesterday, both saw t...

Visa Inc. to Announce Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2009 Financial Results on October 27, 2009

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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Visa Inc. (NYSE: V ) will report its fiscal fourth quarter and full-year 2009...

Online Gambling on The Hill

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I suppose the $4.8 Billion dollars per year that online gambling would generate is more than a drop in the bucket..  Here's an excerpt f...
Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Malware Economy is Thriving

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Last week I did a post entitled:  Game Over: Hackers Win!  Dennis Fisher of Threatpost.com a security blog by Kapersky Labs says it ain'...

More On the E-Mail Hijackings

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Internet security experts are warning millions of email users not to get caught with their pants down and change their passwords immediatel...

Google Doodle Bar Code

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What's up with the Google Doodle today? It's the Bar Code Logo because today is the 57th anniversary of the Invention of the Bar C...

Zeus Online Banking Trojan Webinar Infected with...Zeus!

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According to a story from Brian Krebs, a company produced a webinar on the online banking password stealing Trojan Zeus and was then target...