Credit, debit card industry at odds over security

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

Merchants, financial firms disagree over technology, system upgrades

BOSTON - Fresh details of large-scale cyber attacks against data
processor Heartland Payment Systems and supermarket chain Hannaford
Brothers show the challenges facing the efforts of the United States
credit-card industry to upgrade security measures.

While both companies say their computer networks met the tough new
standards meant to prevent data breaches, Visa said Heartland at least
may have let its guard down.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32541650/ns/technology_and_science-security/
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