An Open Letter to Heartland CEO Robert Carr

Mr. Carr, I read your interview with Bill Brenner in CSO magazine today, and I sympathize with your situation. I completely agree that the current system of standards and audits contained in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is flawed and unreliable as a breach-prevention mechanism...

Heartland CEO Says Data Breach Was 'Devastating'

From Computerworld Jaikumar Vijayan Heartland Payment Systems chief executive Robert Carr remembers what it felt like when he first heard about the massive data breach at his company earlier this year. “I wanted to throw up. It was devastating,” says Carr, recalling how he felt upon realizing tha...