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 …

OK - maybe not all of them, but the most common that I’m hearing anyway…
After asking you all to give me some questions for PA-DSS, I finally am getting around to posting up some answers.  Some of them are also taken directly from numerous conversations that I have had with software vendors over the last several months and, truthfully, I’m glad that I waited to put that post together…It’s not entirely retail focused, as PA-DSS crosses most industries, but I hope it proves useful in answering some common questions…
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