March 28, 2009 1:45 AM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
"How Do You Know?",
information securityThere are as many definitions of pentest and penetration testing as there are google search results. (Some 10,700,00 or so). The problem is, there doesn't seem to be a standard definition of what constitutes penetration testing.
As a result, there are hundreds of companies...
March 26, 2009 8:39 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Data Breaches,
information securityWith all the publicity going on about the Heartland breach, not much attention has been paid to what happened to CheckFree last December. The event is also much more challenging to explain to the...
March 26, 2009 2:16 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Check out the contest for an XBOX this month here on the IT Knowledge Exchange. It made my mouth water!
March 17, 2009 2:13 AM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Data Breaches,
PCI DSS,
Start Laughing Now,
Tearing My Hair OutVisa is in a difficult position: it has said that merchants must be compliant, and the ultimate threat is to pull processing permissions from non-compliant merchants.
But if one of the merchants turns out to be a payment processor that generates huge profits for Visa, do they cut off their nose...
March 12, 2009 8:50 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Data Breaches,
PCI DSSIf you are wondering if your banking institution has been affected by the Heartland breach, you can visit bankinfosecurity.com's web page (updated daily) tracking the number of institutions announcing they have been affected by the...
March 9, 2009 11:59 PM
Posted by: Arian Eigen Heald
Automatic Theft Machines,
Data Breaches,
PCI DSSA story on Wired came out recently about a $9 million ripoff of RBS WorldPay. Further reading on Wired led me to articles about, variously, a cracking of an ATM network in 7-Eleven stores that linked to
