Not PCI / info-security related, but a little sad news regarding a retailer that ’s been around for a while and is a MN company…
Former Wilsons leather chain says it’s closing
Former Wilsons leather chain says it’s closing.

Not directly information security related, but still very interesting - CVS has made another very large purchase and it should be interesting to see what RiteAid and Walgreens do in response….
Also, there are going to be some interesting PCI-related discussions regarding how to merge two differently-run organizations together in a way that effectively manages security and compliance.
CVS Caremark Corporation to Acquire Longs Drug Stores Corporation | CVS Caremark.

This article is interesting (as is the blog) particularly given the fact that a number of large retailers still don’t seem to take a holistic view of their security situation…  I used to be involved in a number of very large payment terminal deployments (and our company went through the key encryption certification process) and we were working with getting retailers to move to security debit terminals years ago….
I have my feelings regarding the mystery merchant, but we’ll have to see if I’m right when they (hopefully) step forward…
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The article at the New York Times …11 Charged in Theft of 41 Million Card Numbers - NYTimes.com.

This is an article from March of this year that was published in RIS news. I realize it’s a little old, but I just stumbled across it…
PCI May Never Stop Hackers: Time to Rethink Security | News | RIS News: Business/Technology Insights for Retail, Supermarket Executives.
This article, in my opinion is both good and bad - first of all, it points out that PCI is not the end-all-be-all for security.
That’s good - it’s important for retailers to understand that PCI is just a ’snap-shot in time’ check on credit-card …