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Visa, MasterCard to unveil new security rules
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 15:02:20 -0400 (EDT)
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001637 By Jaikumar Vijayan, July 07, 2006 Visa U.S.A. Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. will release new security rules in the next 30 to 60 days for all organizations that handle credit card data, a Visa official said this week. The rules will be the first major updates to the one-year-old Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard, which analysts said is slowly but surely being adopted. One set of PCI extensions is aimed at protecting credit card data from emerging Web application security threats, said Eduardo Perez, vice president of corporate risk and compliance at Foster City, Calif.-based Visa. Other new rules will require companies to ensure that any third parties that they deal with, such as hosting providers, have proper controls for securing credit card data. Merchants who fail to comply with PCI can face fines or be excluded from processing credit cards. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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