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Get the facts about credit card security and PCI compliance

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Overview There's no way around it. No matter what size your business is or what industry you work in, if you accept credit cards, you must adhere to the safeguards mandated by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standardreferred to as the PCI DSS. Learn how to make sure you're compliant with this checklist of requirements.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Standards, Security Management, Point of Sale Devices, Transaction Management, Data Recovery - Security

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Retail & Leisure
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wan

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Payment cards: Top target in data breach attacks

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PIN-stealing malware hits ATMs

A spokeswoman for Trustwave told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK that none of the compromised ATMs conformed to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). These are non PCI-compliant ATMs, they don't have proper security in place...

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Financial Services
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atm,
pin,
steal

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