Articles tagged with: Point of sale
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After posting about the press release regarding the potential lawsuit (here) I got an email from the PR firm that had sent the release out. He, in turn, connected me to Charles Hoff - the attorney for the retailer that is considering the suit, Brew HaHa!. We had a very interesting conversation and, not being a lawyer, I’m not going to make any comments about the merits of any lawsuit that may or may not come from this episode, but, as I said, the conversation was interesting and this is …
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Hey look - another lawsuit….
Well - right now it’s just the threat of a suit… The information is a bit thin and I’m not sure (based on the press release) whether or not this is a complaint about the software, the implementation of the software, the hardware system, or all of the above.
What it does look like is a bit of a fishing exercise by the law firms - let’s send out the press release, make it general enough that we include just about anyone that even thought about touching the …
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The link to the article on StorefrontBacktalk is below (thanks Evan) - this is really interesting. It appears that VISA is providing an extension to ExxonMobil on the July 1st, 2010 PA-DSS deadline…
This implies two things (as far as I can see):
That the deadline everyone was wondering about is legit - why would ExxonMobil feel the need to negotiate an extension with VISA unless the deadline was going to mean something and VISA was going to enforce it at some meaningful level?
If you are big enough, VISA is going to …
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This one has some significant implications for software security and the role & responsibility of technology vendors. Here’s the link:
Radiant Systems and Computer World responsible for breach affecting restaurants – lawsuit
What’s most interesting to me in all of this is that fact that the restaurants seem to ‘get it’ - they understand the holistic impact of PCI on process, procedures, technology, etc. and, after being smacked around by the card brands for being the merchant where the breach occured, they have taken that holistic understanding and are working to hold …
