All Posts Tagged With: "pci"

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Is PCI A Fool’s Game?

The challenge with PCI certification is simply that it is reactive instead of proactive. Virtually every rule set created is based on some previous bad act to create the ultimate in a false sense of security. The challenge becomes when you mandate that millions of merchants worldwide spend billions of dollars to become “compliant” you […]

26Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 4 comments | Continued
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Has Google Checkout Stopped Paying Its Merchants?

There have been several unconfirmed reports now that Google Checkout payments haven’t been posted for several weeks now, and support emails are going unanswered for days on end. I am sorry guys if I kept you busy with the PCI thing last week but one word of advice, the quickest way to get a bad […]

10Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 5 comments | Continued
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Update on Google Checkout and MasterCard

Google Checkout. I am happy to report that I received confirmation from Google directly that they have taken the necessary steps to complete their PCI certification. In less than a week after our post about Google not being PCI Compliant, the good people at Google quickly responded to the matter and have completed all of […]

9Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 7 comments | Continued
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MasterCard.com NOT PCI Compliant & Subject to XSS Attacks

Goes to show you, no matter who you are, your website is subject to scripting errors and therefore security breaches like XSS attacks. Seems like MasterCard, in all it’s attempts to ensure that merchants, banks, and merchant service providers are security-compliant, messed up. XSSED has discovered a scripting error in MasterCard’s search function which could […]

5Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 7 comments | Continued
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10 Things your Merchant Service Provider Will Not Tell You

1) Discount rates are ultimately set by Visa/MasterCard. Anything in excess of these rates are profit for the ISO, Merchant Service provider, and end-reseller. In the case of high risk merchants, these can be upwards of several percentage points per transaction.
2) Being on the TMF list doesn’t automatically exclude a merchant from being accepted for […]

1Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 3 comments | Continued

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