I’ve been traveling a lot lately and, although I’ve read and had lots of commentary about a number of blog posts and news article recently relating to retail security, I haven’t had the time to write them down and post them…
So I’ve decided that I’m going to post a summary of the posts and articles that I’ve read over the last week or so that I’ve thought were interesting and relevant.  This isn’t what I’d really prefer to do - I’d much rather take the opportunity to rant about something …

For those of you paying attention - I’m sure that you’ve already seen this announcement and probably taken a cursory look through the documentation.
I’ve been a bit out-of-pocket recently (a combination of famility vacation & working on projects with some of our large retail and retail technology clients), but wanted to make sure that I made note of this information from VISA in case you hadn’t seen it.
Sorry - that’s it, but as we get through the next crazy week (it’s Black Hat after all…) I’ll try to be more …

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 …