On March 31, 2022, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council published version 4.0 of its PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The updated standards provide significant new guidance on the ...

The PCI Security Standards Council may address requirements related to the use of virtualization and wireless technologies by payment-card handlers. Regulatory changes are coming for the payment-card ...

State and local governments that process credit card payments need to know how to conduct a PCI penetration test to remain compliant with the PCI DSS. For state and local governments that accept ...

A financial services industry group focused on cybersecurity released a set of four white papers on Thursday outlining the impact that quantum computing will have on the payments ecosystem, and ...

Credit card transactions in the U.S. are often not encrypted, and credit card vendors, payment processors and retailers need to embrace an encryption standard to protect credit card numbers, the CEO ...

Steven Elefant, CIO of Heartland Payment Systems, doesn't believe in software security. "There is no such thing as totally secure software anymore, and there probably never will be," he says.Elefant ...

The exposure of 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers in the TJX data theft should serve as a wakeup call to retailers who risk losing money and credibility when they fail to protect sensitive ...