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MasterCard Priceless Picks 1.0 (Mobile): The world is full of priceless things. That's why we've built the "Priceless Picks" application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It helps you share your favorite places and amazing deals with the world, and it can show you all the great things around you that other people have tagged...; Tags: Mobile, MasterCard International, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2009-07-17
Understanding PCI DSS Compliance: PCI DSS version 1.1 (the current standard until October 2008 when PCI DSS version 1.2 is slated to be released) outlines best practices for credit card data that is stored, processed or transmitted. It consolidates and supersedes the requirements of the previously developed MasterCard Site Data Protection SDP Program and...; Tags: Visa Inc., Credit Card, MasterCard International, Perimeter eSecurity, PCI, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Storage, Hardware, Sales, Finance; White papers 2009-06-11
Heartland says malware breach cost $12.6 million: The data breach at Heartland Payment Systems cost the company a whopping $12.6 million in legal costs and fines from Mastercard and Visa. Heartland, a publicly traded company that provides bank card payment processing services to merchants in the U.S., made the disclosure less than four months...; Tags: Bank, Payment, Malware, Intrusion, MasterCard International, Heartland, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2009-05-08
Risk, Readiness and Redundancy: PCI Compliance Automation With Symantec Control Compliance Suite: For most of this decade, the major credit card companies have been aggressively developing standards to establish a common approach to protect the privacy and security of sensitive credit card data. In June 2001, Visa mandated the Cardholder Information Security Program CISP for merchants and financial institutions handling its card...; Tags: Visa Inc., Symantec Corp., Credit Card, Compliance, PCI, Automation, MasterCard International, Sales Channel, Security, Financial Services, Sales; White papers 2009-03-27
Scareware meets ransomware: "Buy our fake product and we'll decrypt the files": Scareware meets ransomware: "Buy our fake product and we'll decrypt the files"I imagine this is targeted ONLY to Windows platforms :-)As soon as I read this I looked over at my wife and said "God I'm glad we left Windows!" The more I read of this crap the happier I...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, Scareware, RICO, MasterCard International, Visa Inc., malware, security; Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Croatian Banks Make Fraud Virtually Impossible by Securing Transactions and User Identities With Thales nCipher HSMs: A member of the Asseco Group, which is Europe's fifth largest system integrator, Logos is one of Croatia's most trusted IT companies. Logos has built numerous online banking systems for clients including leading Croatian banks Zagrebacka Banka member of UniCredit Group, PBZ member of Intesa Sanpaolo Group, and Raiffeisenbank Austria....; Tags: User Identity, Online Banking, Hardware, Fraud, MasterCard International, THALES, Hardware Security Module, Banking, Litigation, E-business/E-Commerce, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Business Operations, Internet; Case studies 2009-01-22
US credit card market: Visa - 44%, MasterCard - 31%, AmEx - 20%, Discover - 5%: Visa had a 44% share of the US credit card market in 2006, compared to MasterCard’s 31%, AmEx’s 20% and Discover’s 5%. The same report said Visa had a 48% market share of the US debit card market, compared to 14% at MasterCard, Nilson Report says. by AM; Tags: Visa Inc., Credit Card, MasterCard International, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, AM; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Apple Retail Store shopper to Steve Jobs: clerk had no right to ask for my ID: Update: Ignacio, who is the customer in this tale, informs The Consumerist thatthe store manager has apologized for asking for his ID. Apparently in a gracious mood, Ignacio has forgiven the store and plans to go in to shop soon. But he's doing so after all this:Â ...; Tags: Visa Inc., Steve Jobs, Card, Cardholder, Credit Card, Apple Inc., Citigroup Inc., Merchant, MasterCard International, Ignacio, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2008-02-20
Meeting the PCI Standard: Identity theft and credit card fraud is a large and growing problem. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that almost 10 million consumers were affected last year, at a cost of close to $50 billion. In order to combat this growing menace, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club, Discover and other...; Tags: Visa Inc., Credit Card, Compliance, PCI, MasterCard International, Solidcore Systems, Identity Theft, Quality, Sales Channel, Security, Business Operations, Sales; White papers 2007-11-06
User Generated Ads grow up: Consumers (not) in control?: Can consumers be controlled?Â Is tapping users to create advertising a fad, or a strategy?The questions are open for debate, and they were debated, this morning in NYC at the Interactive Advertising Bureauâ€™s User-Generated Content & Social Networking Forum, with the participation of:Cheryl Guerin, VP Promotions & Interactives, MasterCard, InternationalTom Lynch,...; Tags: User-Generated Content, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Advertising; Blog posts 2007-06-04
Lessons Learned: Top Reasons for PCI Audit Failure and How to Avoid Them: Since Visa mandated the Cardholder Information Security Program CISP in June 2001 and MasterCard International introduced its Site Data Protection SDP program in June 2004, many merchants, processors, and acquiring banks have been working diligently to meet their specific requirements. Today's Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS, which...; Tags: Visa Inc., VeriSign Inc., MasterCard International, PCI, Security, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2006-06-01
Visa owns 55% of Hong Kong credit card market, MasterCard - 35%: In June 2004, total credit card debt as a percentage of total household credit was 6.4% for Hong Kong. This was significantly higher than that of Singapore which was 2.7% but less than other regional countries such as Thailand and Taiwan with 7.3% and 8.5% respectively. In terms of the...; Tags: credit card; Blog posts 2006-02-10
$765.1 bln charged to MasterCards in the US in 2005: Worldwide gross dollar volumes charged to MasterCard cards rose 11.9% to $1.66 trillion. That was up from the 10.7% worldwide growth the company posted in 2004 and the 5.8% in 2003. Gross dollar volumes in the United States grew 9.5% to $765.1 bln. In Europe, MasterCard's second-largest market, volumes rose...; Tags: MasterCard International; Blog posts 2006-02-03
Encryption Key Management, Key Rotation and the PCI Data Security Standard: Enterprise Information Protection The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards are a multi-faceted approach to the protection of cardholder data. The credit card associations Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover aligned their individual policy protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS. This alignment in...; Tags: Payment, American Express Co., Vormetric, Encryption, MasterCard International, PCI, Operational Accounting, Security, Storage, Hardware, Finance; White papers 2006-01-24
MasterCard kicks off data security push: MasterCard kicks off data security pushAnd people are scared of doing transactions online!!With all the press that online fraud gets, people have this idea that doing transactions online is so very risky.... whereas they wouldn't think twice about handing their card to some minimum wage waiter in a restaurant.Finally,...; Tags: Financial accounting, Real Risk, compliance, MasterCard International, identity theft, Cisco Systems Inc., data security; Discussion threads 2006-01-12
Details emerge on credit card breach: Details emerge on credit card breachScary thoughts...It's very scary to think that financial institutions would run IIS 5. THE most hacked web server on the planet.The jokers running their IT should be hanged....unless they were in on it? (No accusations, just wondering out loud).Details emerge on credit card breachThis story...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Sales channel, Financial accounting, Financial services, SECURITY, Operating systems, CardSystems Solutions Inc., MasterCard International, Microsoft IIS Server, credit card, financial, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2005-06-20
Only a fraction of lost cards are "high-risk": Over at Digital Identity World, Eric Norlin reacted with incredulity to MasterCard's PR spin on the loss of 13.9 million customer card numbers by card processor CardSystem Solutions. The spin was part of a story in USA Today that read in part: ...; Tags: credit card, MasterCard International; Blog posts 2005-06-20
Only a fraction of lost cards are "high-risk": Over at Digital Identity World, Eric Norlin reacted with incredulity to MasterCard's PR spin on the loss of 13.9 million customer card numbers by card processor CardSystem Solutions. The spin was part of a story in USA Today that read in part: Credit card users, don't fret. Only a small...; Tags: MasterCard International; Blog posts 2005-06-20
MasterCard breach hits 40 million accounts: MasterCard breach hits 40 million accountsUnderstatement of the year..."security staff identified the breach"Ummm, that is more like a major phl_lkkup!. It's gettin' damn scary out there. Thank God I online bank with Linux. All I do is pay bills. No online credit card anything, ever! >:-lAbout time folks GET A...; Tags: Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Sales channel, MasterCard International, security, credit card, government; Discussion threads 2005-06-17
Some MasterCard holders exposed to data theft: Some MasterCard holders exposed to data theftI will say it firstIf eveyone used Linux then all data loss problems would diappear. If that is not correct, then I must have missed being "All I Could Be" by reading this forum.You know what's also true?If no one used credit cards, data...; Tags: Linux, data-loss problem, data theft, MasterCard International; Discussion threads 2005-04-14