These days spending time online can be dangerous regardless of whether you’re a private individual checking things out at home or the proprietor of a business. Admittedly there is more potential danger and loss to be had by a business who operates a network that stores client and business sensitive data. If this […]

I think access to the internet is one of the most compelling reasons for some of us to own a pc. But the internet has a dark side. It has now became a tool for organized crime syndicates to target PCs for confidential information, and some people just enjoy to create viruses to disrupt performance […]

Do you store sensitive credit card data on your company’s own internal system? If so, are you absolutely certain that it is sufficiently protected? And are you really sure that you understand the consequences of suffering a security breach?
The unfortunate thing is that many companies, even large national chains, are not properly guarded […]

In order to protect the integrity of card-not-present transactions, such as online commerce, the five major credit card companies came together and created the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. As more and more stories about security breaches reach the public awareness, consumer confidence in electronic transactions is in danger of falling off significantly.
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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) mandates that anyone who stores, processes, or transmits sensitive credit card data must be PCI compliant. In other words, they must conform to a set of standardized security measures.
Credit card data encryption is one of the most essential parts of reaching PCI compliance. Unfortunately, […]

If you are a company that participates in eCommerce and stores, processes, or transmits credit card data, you are required to be PCI compliant. In other words, there is a certain set of standardized security protocols that you must adhere to. For those who don’t, the Payment Card Industry has also instituted a […]

I think that not everybody knows that their computer is having a unique address which it uses to communicate with other computers and electronic devices on the world wide web.When ever you surf the internet your IP address which is also known as internet protocol address is tracked by the server which is exchanging information […]

Do you know that if you are surfing internet all your activity can be traced by locating your IP address. IP address also known as internet protocol address is a number with the help of which your computer can be located easily. A protocol address gives all the important information about your computer and gives […]

IP address (internet protocol address) in a simple language is a personal address of a computer or any other electronic device. Internet protocol address help computers and electronic devices to communicate with each other on a network. IP address is a 32 bit number which sends and receives information on the internet. When ever you […]

This is that time of year when we all start getting those emails that want to purloin our secret codes and passwords. You know the ones that have subject lines like: “Your Account Is About To Be Closed,” “There’s A Block On Your Account,” “Could You Help Me Claim My Funds,” or my all-time […]

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