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Aug 27.23 | In Other News: Africa Cybercrime Crackdown, Unpatched macOS Flaw, Investor Disclosures

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Jun 17.23 | CISA, NSA Share Guidance on Hardening Baseboard Management Controllers

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Dec 04.22 | Italy’s New Government Could Hold Back Country’s Digital Payment Push

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Nov 11.22 | GitHub Introduces Private Vulnerability Reporting for Public Repositories

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Sep 18.22 | Serious Breach at Uber Spotlights Hacker Social Deception

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Sep 18.22 | Serious Breach at Uber Spotlights Hacker Social Deception

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Aug 21.22 | FBI Warns of Proxies and Configurations Used in Credential Stuffing Attacks

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Jul 10.22 | Musk Ditches Twitter Deal, Triggering Defiant Response

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Jul 03.22 | Supreme Court Ruling May Tie SEC’s Hands on Crypto Crackdown

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Oct 03.21 | ChamelGang Hackers Target Energy, Aviation, and Government Sectors

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Aug 08.21 | New DNS Attack Enables 'Nation-State Level Spying' via Domain Registration

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Jul 14.21 | How Consumers Now Define a Good Customer Experience

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May 18.20 | Hackers Can Inject Code Into WordPress Sites via Flaw in Product Review Plugin

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May 03.20 | Mobile Carriers Allude To Potential 5G Delays Amid COVID-19

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Apr 05.20 | eBay Lends Hand to Bring SMB Merchants Online

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Mar 30.20 | Trying Times for Employee Engagement

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Mar 22.20 | Russian Cyberspies Hacked High-Profile Email Accounts for Phishing

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Feb 23.20 | Fraudulent Login Attacks Against Banks Surge: Akamai

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Jan 12.20 | Recommerce: The New Art of Secondhand Sales

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Jan 01.20 | Two years after China bans elephant ivory trade, demand for elephant ivory is down

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Dec 27.19 | British Hacker Sentenced for Blackmailing Apple

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Dec 19.19 | The Ever-Changing Face of E-Commerce: 1995-2020

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Dec 04.19 | Magecart Skimmers Found on Salesforce's Heroku Platform

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Oct 06.19 | DevOps, Platform Strategy and Transformation

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Sep 29.19 | Germany Cracks 'Cyber Bunker' Hosting Darknet Sites

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Sep 15.19 | Car Dealer Marketing Firm Exposed 198 Million Data Records

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Sep 09.19 | Cyberattack Disrupted Firewalls at U.S. Power Utility

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Aug 25.19 | US Wants Woman Accused in Capital One Hack to Stay Locked Up

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Aug 18.19 | Many Users Don't Change Unsafe Passwords After Being Warned: Google

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Aug 05.19 | ID Theft Stings, But it's Hard to Pin on Specific Data Hacks

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Jul 17.19 | Mnuchin Sounds Alarm Over Facebook's Money-Minting Plan

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Jun 29.19 | eCommerce … The 1950s Way

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Jun 15.19 | Retailers' Most Common Cloud Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Jun 02.19 | Researchers Dissect PowerShell Scripts Used by Russia-Linked Hackers

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May 19.19 | Technology Is Filling a Need in Philanthropy

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May 10.19 | The Vital Role of Customer Service in the Sharing Economy

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Apr 23.19 | How to Get Smarter About Influencer Marketing

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Mar 31.19 | Georgia Man Admits to Hacking Accounts of Athletes and Musicians

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Jan 21.19 | Digital License Plates Vie For Place In Connected Car Ecosystem

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Jan 04.19 | The Economics of E-Commerce Chargeback Fraud

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Dec 14.18 | E-Commerce Success Strategies: Think Local, Not Global

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Dec 14.18 | Save the Children Hacked Twice In 2017

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Nov 13.18 | The Fine Art of Keeping B2B Buyers Engaged

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Nov 05.18 | How E-Commerce SMBs Can Step Up Sales Engagement

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Oct 28.18 | Challenging Times For IBM/Maersk Blockchain Shipping Initiative?

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Sep 29.18 | The Best of Both Worlds: Converging Online and Offline Shopping

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Sep 22.18 | Poor Website Designs Could Trigger Legal Actions

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Sep 09.18 | Georgia Extradites Russian Data Theft Suspect to US

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Aug 22.18 | 5 Steps to a Riveting Company Story

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Aug 12.18 | The Internet's Truth vs. Fake News Showdown

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Aug 04.18 | Slide Over, Salesforce? Freshworks Scores $100M in Funding Round

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Jul 29.18 | Remote Spectre Attack Allows Data Theft Over Network

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Jul 08.18 | Trojan Either Encrypts Files or Mines for Cryptocurrency

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Jul 04.18 | Breaking the Fraud Chain

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Jun 29.18 | Facebook App Exposed Data of 120 Million Users

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Jun 20.18 | The Damaging Effects Of 5G Wireless On Your Health

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Jun 18.18 | Breach Litigation: A Growing Risk for E-Commerce Businesses

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Jun 11.18 | The Cloud's Hazy Security

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Jun 08.18 | Cisco Patches Severe Vulnerabilities in Prime Collaboration Provisioning

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Jun 06.18 | HR Software Firm PageUp Suffers Data Breach

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Jun 03.18 | The Inherent Problem With Mainstream Education & How It Keeps The World STUCK

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May 22.18 | A New Cryptocurrency That Lets YOU Profit From Your Data, Instead Of Corporations

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May 20.18 | 200 Million Sets of Japanese PII Emerge on Underground Forums

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May 03.18 | Commodity Ransomware Declines as Corporate Attacks Increase

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Apr 30.18 | NATO Exercise Tests Skills of National Cyber Defenders

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Apr 25.18 | Amazon's Latest Delivery Scheme Involves Handing Over Your Car Keys

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Apr 24.18 | 5 Ways to Build Community Around Your Brand

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Apr 23.18 | Honesty Proves Best Policy for Closing B2B Deals: Study

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Apr 20.18 | Reining In Data-Crazed Tech Companies By Pam Baker

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Apr 18.18 | Number 2 and 3 Tips of Seven to Help You Make Money Online by R.L. Adams

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Apr 17.18 | 7 Realistic Ways to Make Money Online The internet offers many opportunities to generate passive income sufficient for you to quit the rat race. R.L. Adams

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Apr 15.18 | Why Mass Transit Could Be the Next Big Target for Cyber Attacks—and What to do About it by : Stan Engelbrecht on April 13, 2018

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Oct 25.17 | Increase Email Security and Reduce Your Risk of Being Hacked - by Robert Siciliano

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Jun 13.16 | There’s the Beef: Wendy’s Breach Numbers About to Get Much Meatier by KrebsonSecurity

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Apr 28.16 | PCI DSS 3.2: 3 Things You Need to Know by Steve Zurier

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Aug 24.15 | MYANMAR: Humanitarian flood appeal 07/08/2015 by Alan Cole in the UK

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Aug 11.15 | Diving into the Dark Web: Where does your stolen data go? By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | April 8, 2015

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Jul 27.15 | Target, PCI Auditor Trustwave Sued By Banks Trustwave apparently certified the retailer as PCI compliant -- but can PCI assessors be held liable for data breaches? by Mathew Schwartz Infoweek

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Jun 04.15 | AT&T Admits Failure In Mobile Payments By pymnts @pymnts

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May 04.15 | Three Survive Eight Days Under Earthquake Rubble In Nepal, As Death Toll Rises: By Gopal Sharma: Reuters

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Apr 27.15 | Nepal earthquake donations: Who's sending what By Alanna Petroff and Ben Rooney @CNNMoney

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Apr 27.15 | Nepal scrambles to organise earthquake relief, death toll rises to 4000 - Source: Reuters @ibnlive

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Apr 20.15 | How Much Does Penetration Testing (Pen Test) Cost? by: Gary Glover, Director of Security Assessments at SecurityMetrics

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Jan 08.15 | Moonpig app pulled after expert exposes 'half-arsed' security measures: 6 January 2015 - 12:44pm | posted by John McCarthy

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Dec 11.14 | New payment-card-security-standard-wont-stop-data-breaches by Howard Solomon @itworldca

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Dec 09.14 | Visa Enhanced PCI Compliance Push Slated For Jan. 1 Start By Kevin Woodward

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Oct 30.14 | Global security breaches up 48 percent for 2014 Friday 24 October 2014 | 02:44 PM CET

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Sep 22.14 | Home Depot Rushes to Deploy EMV Cards in Wake of Massive Data Theft By Wayne Rash - Eweek

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Sep 09.14 | Home Depot Confirms Breach By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld | Sep 8, 2014 3:12 PM PT

Home Depot Confirms Breach! read more

Aug 25.14 | UPS Hit by Data Breach Company Doesn't Know How Many Customers Were Affected, Only the Number of Transactions. Wall Street Journal By Laura Stevens

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May 05.14 | Target CEO Departs in Wake of Data Breach Source: Brian Prince Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

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Jun 10.13 | Canada Eavesdropping on Phone, Internet Records Too: Source: Globe and Mail

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Jan 18.13 | Java Security Warnings: Cut Through The Confusion by Mathew J. Schwartz

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May 29.12 | Researchers identify Stuxnet-like malware called 'Flame' By Lucian Constantin

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May 18.12 | Even a minor lapse in security protocol can lead to major costs Posted by: Karen Goulart

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Apr 03.12 | Global Payments hopes to soon regain PCI compliance after breach


Global Payments hopes to soon regain PCI compliance after breach
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Oct 11.11 | Businesses failing to comply with PCI DSS security standards: Verizon and Banktech India News Network, 9/29/2011 10:55:29 AM

Too many businesses are struggling to comply with payment card security standards, putting consumers’ confidential information at risk, according to a report by IT services and solutions provider Verizon. Te report for a second year in a row found compliance lacking on the payment card security front. read more

May 03.11 | Sony data breach update reveals 'bad practices' By Emily Chung, CBC News

The data breach affecting Sony Online Entertainment's 24.6 million accounts is linked to a previously announced cyberattack on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity entertainment service, which affected the personal information of more than 77 million users. Thomas Peter/Reuters read more

Mar 11.11 | Assume you’re always under attack’: experts By: Liam Lahey On: 11 Mar 2011 For: ComputerWorld Canada

Enterprises must make a conscious decision about what information we’re prepared to lose, said an exec with security vendor Symantec. Why companies are missing the mark with security risk management read more

Oct 26.10 | ‘Spear-Phishing’ Attacks Keep on Giving by Kim Zetter, wired.com

‘Spear-Phishing’ Attacks Keep on Giving

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Sep 16.09 | Web server attacks, poor app patching make for nasty mix Jump in site hacks, lazy Adobe, Sun, Apple program patching to fuel online threats By Gregg Keizer September 15, 2009 03:44 PM ET

Web server attacks, poor app patching make for nasty mix
Jump in site hacks, lazy Adobe, Sun, Apple program patching to fuel online threats
By Gregg Keizer
September 15, 2009 03:44 PM ET read more

Jul 02.09 | Heartland breach cost $12.6 million, CEO says

By Robert Westervelt, News Editor 07 May 2009 | SearchFinancialSecurity.com

Heartland Payment Systems Inc. said it was experiencing losses this quarter as a direct result of a massive data breach it disclosed in January when investigators discovered a malicious program sniffing credit card data passing through its systems. read more

Apr 20.09 | RBS, Heartland no longer PCI compliant

RBS, Heartland no longer PCI compliant

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco • Posted in Security, 13th March 2009 21:40 GMT

Visa on Friday alerted the world that RBS WorldPay and Heartland Payment Systems are not on its list of payment card processors who are in good standing with industry-mandated standards for data security.

The move follows announcements by both companies that they experienced data breaches that exposed details for a large number of credit cards to criminal hackers. RBS said the security lapse exposed 1.5 million cards. Heartland has yet to say how many cards were affected.
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Sep 30.08 | FAQ: Clickjacking -- should you be worried? Nearly all browsers are vulnerable to this new attack class, but details are scarce!

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Jul 25.08 | Credit-card fraud probe targets Pearson's self-service kiosks

An investigation of suspected credit-card fraud at Toronto's Pearson airport is now concentrating on the security of its 150 self-service check-in kiosks. read more

Feb 25.08 | MONERIS SOLUTIONS LAUNCHES NEW E-PHILANTHROPY INITIATIVE WITH C.N. WYLIE GROUP!


Moneris’ new eSELECTplus® payment tool will be used with Wylie’s Helpforcharities.com Web site so organizations can easily accept electronic contributions and purchases online
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Jan 18.08 | Silent Banker Trojan..Banking in Silence

Beware the Silent Banker Trojan which sits quietly between your computer and your online banking to steal away payments. It can silently change the user-entered destination bank account details to the attacker's account details instead. read more

Jan 14.08 | November 6, 2007 92 Convio Clients Hit In Security Breach

November 6, 2007 92 Convio Clients Hit In Security Breach
Firm says no financial data was accessed
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Nov 13.07 | VISA PLANS TO RAISE $10 BILLION IN IPO

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Oct 24.07 | Court filing in TJX breach doubles toll

Court filing in TJX breach doubles toll
94 million accounts were affected, banks say
By Ross Kerber, Globe Staff | October 24, 2007 read more

Sep 10.07 | SPIguard Security Solutions Inc. QSA certification with PCI Standards Council, L.L.C.

Its official! SPIguard Security Solutions Inc. is certified with PCI SSC as a QSA!
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_qsa_list.pdf read more

Jul 19.07 | VISA USA GIVES ACQUIRERS DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PCI PLANS FOR LEVEL 4 MERCHANTS

Merchant acquirers working with Visa USA have until July 31 to submit a summary of
their plans for small-merchant compliance with the Payment Card Industry
data-security standard. read more

Jan 18.07 | SECURITY EXPERT BELIEVES BANKS, NOT MERCHANTS, SHOULD 'OWN UP' TO RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT DATA

DATA: The data breach confirmed by TJX Cos. today is "quite serious" and looks to be
organized, suggests Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner Group. She believes the
payments industry needs to recognize that it may be more cost effective to change
the payment system than ask 5 million retailers to comply with PCI data-security
standards. read more

Nov 13.06 | FBI SNARES THREE MORE IN CREDIT CARD SALES RING:

The FBI investigation
of an international ring that bought and sold credit card numbers has
expanded in Eastern Europe following the arrest of three Romanians
students who stole 200,000 euros (US$256,897) read more

Nov 01.06 | Helpforcharities.com Inc. launches new online charitable giving service: Gift Catalogue


The Gift Catalogue System provides donors with the ability to control how they direct their donations. read more

Oct 10.06 | FIVE LEADING PAYMENT BRANDS UNITE TO STRENGTHEN GLOBAL DATA SECURITY

WAKEFIELD, Mass. Sept. 7, 2006 - American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International today jointly announced the formation of an independent council designed to manage the ongoing evolution of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, which focuses on improving payment account security throughout the transaction process. read more

Jul 26.06 | Woman wins suit against Equifax

A federal jury has ordered Equifax Information Services LLC to pay a Nokesville woman $351,000 in actual damages from an identity theft lawsuit. read more

Jul 24.06 | VISA MODIFIES MERCHANT CATEGORIES IN PCI COMPLIANCE

Visa USA announced Friday changes in merchant categories for its Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard (PCI). read more

Jun 06.06 | Catherine N. Pagliaro, CEO, C.N. Wylie Group Inc., DESIGNATED ePHILANTHROPY MASTER TRAINER (ePMT)

Vancouver, British Columbia (June 5, 2006)
Catherine N. Pagliaro, CEO, C.N. Wylie Group Inc., is one of 49 fundraising professionals from around the world to be named an ePhilanthropy Master Trainer (ePMT) by the ePhilanthropy Foundation. read more

May 29.06 | PCI OVERSIGHT BODY IN THE WORKS:

PCI OVERSIGHT BODY IN THE WORKS: Five U.S. card networks reportedly are discussing the development of a formal organization to oversee the
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, commonly known as PCI. read more

May 26.06 | Batten Down Online Shopping Carts, Visa Warns!!!!

BATTEN DOWN ONLINE SHOPPING CARTS, VISA WARNS: Visa USA is warning today
of an increase in a particular type of attack on online merchants and
recommending strategies to address it. read more

Mar 16.06 | C.N. Wylie Group Inc. Achieves PCI DSS Compliance Dec. 12, 2005!

Vancouver, BC – Dec. 12th, 2005
The C.N. Wylie Group of Companies including: PayPaq Solutions Inc.; Strategic Profits Inc.; Helpforcharities.com Inc.,; SPIguard Security Solutions Inc.; Communitystorefronts.com is pleased to announce that they have achieved compliance through the PCI (Payment Card Industry) DSS (Data Security Standards)! read more

Nov 06.05 | Helpforcharities.com Inc. completes INTERAC Online integration for Canadian Red Cross

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-- (BUSINESS WIRE)-November 6, 2005-
Helpforcharities.com Inc. announced today the "go live" of INTERAC Online
technology by completing integration of the new INTERAC Online technology to Canadian
Red Cross's online donation page read more

Oct 06.04 | C.N. Wylie Group Inc. and Strategic Profits Inc. Corporate Restructuring

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-October 6, 2004-C.N Wylie Group
Inc. today announced the launch of their
new corporate site and finalization of its corporate restructuring read more