Archive for March, 2006
CardSystems gained notoriety last year when they experienced that largest loss of financial and credit card date in history. As many as 40 million credit card numbers were compromised after CardSystem's database was hacked. The database was apparently unencrypted resulting in a potential total loss ...
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March 31st, 2006
Paypal and other financial institution phishing is a major concern for many individuals and businesses. I personally get several hundred phishing emails per day and a huge percentage of them are ebay and paypal phishing attempts.
Phishing is type of fraud where an email is sent to a person and t...
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March 28th, 2006
You probably won’t end up paying the bill, but a stolen credit card can still cost you big in time and aggravation. Here's how to protect yourself online and off.
In some ways, credit card fraud isn’t the problem it’s often made out to be.
Visa says fraud acc...
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March 24th, 2006
I just started a new blog today, after making yesterday's post. The blog is going to be geared toward web usability, increasing customer conversion on and offline and anything else related to making a business sell better.
Hopefully it can become a great resource for business owners.
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March 21st, 2006
I was online today purchasing some network hardware for the company, and after visiting about 20 different sites, all with similar prices, it was only one site that ended up getting my business.
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March 20th, 2006
Visa has put out a warning to consumers and businesses about POS system flaws that can jeopardize credit and debit card holder's security. These POS systems are used by many of America's largest retail chains.
Visa USA Inc. is warning that two versions of popular software installed a...
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March 17th, 2006
I wish I could say that every business that is placed on a terminated merchants file deserves it. Unfortunately I would be absolutely lying to say so.
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March 15th, 2006
Credit card fraud is a menacing problem for everyone. It helps to drive businesses prices up and drives up the price to process credit cards.
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March 14th, 2006
AVS, short for 'Address Verification System' is a simple verification tool businesses use, that verifies the billing address of the credit card. AVS can verify the billing ZIP code and / or the street address of the card. AVS currently is only available for cardholders in the US.
When a business ...
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March 10th, 2006
Being in the credit card processing business for several years, there is one thing that has always bothered me. The lack of the ability to verify the name of a person placing an order over a website or over the phone.
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March 9th, 2006
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