Attention Payment Application Developers: Begin Your Transition from the PA-DSS to the PCI SSF Today

The Payment Card Industry PCI Council plans to formally retire the Payment Application Data Security Standard PA-DSS in October 2022 and replace it with the PCI Software Security Framework SSF. For vendors, the new framework expands program eligibility with improved support for evolving...

Mobile payment software is now vulnerabilities hackers use Siri to steal your money-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Venmo's security holes is by the Salesforce security engineer Martin Vigo found, and this vulnerability using the“medium”is very special, Siri in this process is very unfortunately become a hackers attack our tools. The hackers have to do things very simple, he just need to ask Siri to send a...

CHARGE Anywhere Breached, Plain Text Data Accessed

CHARGE Anywhere, a New Jersey-based developer of payment gateway and mobile payment applications, on Tuesday disclosed that it had been breached and that hackers had access to transactions leaving its network, perhaps going back as far as 2009. Most of the traffic was encrypted, the company said ...

American Express Brings Tokenization to Payment Cards

American Express has taken steps toward lifting the burden from retailers having to store payment-card data with the announcement of its American Express Token Service. The service will replace traditional 16-digit credit card numbers with a digital token. Consumers carrying a card supporting the...

Book Review: Hacking Point of Sale, In-Depth Study on Payment Applications

Point-of-sale POS is the hottest topic in payment structures and its one of the most popular technology topics as well. A Point-of-sale POS machine is a computerized replacement for a cash register. It has ability to quickly process a customer's transaction, accurately keep the records, process...

P2P Encryption Program now available from PCI Council

The PCI council has updated the Point-to-Point encryption P2PE program requirements PDF. The update impacts merchants, payment applications, point of sale vendors and service providers. As a participating organization of the PCI P2PE task force, providing input into the standard, I wanted to...