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Heartland calls for payments industry encryption standard
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:01:49 -0600 (CST)
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/01/27/234444/heartland-calls-for-payments-industry-encryption-standard.htm By Warwick Ashford ComputerWeekly.com 27 Jan 2009 The head of Heartland Payment Systems, which washit by a massive data breach last year, has called for industry collaboration to combat cyber-crime attacks. Cyber-criminals gained access to potentially millions of credit card transaction details after planting spy software on Heartland systems. Heartland chief executive Robert Carr has held meetings with others in the payments industry following the public disclosure of the data security breach. There is growing concern in the industry about the increasing success and frequency of cyber-attacks, according to Carr. He has called for greater information sharing to prevent cyber-criminals from using the same or similar techniques in multiple attacks. "I believe that had we known the details about previous intrusions, we might have found and prevented the problem we learned of last week," Carr said. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books & More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/
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