All Posts Tagged With: "ecommerce"

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Paypal considering Verified by Visa

What happens when you introduce one of the most widely targeted brand names, i.e. Paypal, with yet another highly targeted brand name, i.e. Visa? Can anyone say Chernobyl?
Seems in an effort to combat fraud, Paypal is in the early stages of considering the use of Verified by Visa and MasterCard (NYSE MA) Secure Code to […]

13Feb2008 | Riley Poole | 10 comments | Continued
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Why AVS Is Bad for Merchants

AVS, otherwise known as Address Verification Service, just doesn’t work. Banks know it, merchant service providers know it, and merchants should know it. Too often, AVS misleads merchants into thinking an order may be valid when it’s not. I’ve heard merchant after merchant say the same thing “but AVS said it was valid!” only to […]

28Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 4 comments | Continued
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New iPhone Trojan Horse Targets Personal Data

Just announced publicly this week, the first iPhone trojan horse has hit the public. At first glance, the trojan horse appeared completely benign but further research revealed that the attack targeted multiple applications including OpenSSH, the middleware solution which powers most SSL Communications. This standard protocol is used in the transmission of sensitive data including, […]

9Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 8 comments | Continued
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My New Blog

Welcome to the all new Merchant Talk Blog. My name is Riley and I will be your friendly blogger, most of the time ;) This blog is dedicated to talking about, well, ecommerce. I think it’s shocking some of the stuff that goes on in the merchant services industry and ecommerce world and it’s time […]

28Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 0 comments | Continued

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