This short animated video provides an overview of the PCI Data Security Standard in a more entertaining way.

Yet another data breach involving theft of credit card data has been announced. On March 13th, Batteries.com received notice from a customer about potential unauthorized activity on their credit card. They later discovered the Batteries.com network had been breached from around February 25, 2009 to April 9, 2009. The breach involved theft of names, addresses, [...]

In an ongoing saga, one of the most popular web hosting message boards www.webhostingtalk.com has been dealt another serious blow to it’s security.  Late last month, Webhostingtalk was hacked in a deliberate, sophisticated and calculated manner. The attacker was able to circumvent their security measures and access via a backdoor protected by a firewall to [...]