News

28 March 2006 : Visa Validates Trevance®Security Practices


29 November 2005 : Auric Systems International Selects PSC for Payment Application Best Practices - Visa USA compliance certification.


13 September 2005 : Auric Systems International offers customers free PCI/CISP/SDP security

Payment Card Security Articles

Web site security - what's that?

Not-So-Good Fellas

ID data breaches: as rampant as it seems

Debit-card fraud underscores legal loopholes

Debit card thieves get around PIN obstacle

Additional security breach information:

Adam Shostack's blog, www.emergentchaos.com/archives/cat_breaches.html

Attrition, www.attrition.org/errata/dataloss.html (includes links to news articles and offers free list-serve on the latest breaches, http://attrition.org/security/dataloss.html)

World Privacy Forum, Security Breaches in the Digital Medical Environment (scroll to section D of testimony), www.worldprivacyforum.org/testimony/NCVHStestimony_092005.html

Security Breach Resources (Chris Walsh) www.cwalsh.org/BreachInfo

State Government 

State PIRG Summary of State Security Freeze and Security Breach Notification Laws

Consumers Union Notice of Security Breach State Laws Last updated March 27, 2006

Federal Government

US Congress EPIC Bill Track - Tracking Privacy, Speech, and Cyber-Liberties Bills in the 109th Congress  

US Senate Consumer Privacy 

Office of Justice Programs on Consumer Privacy 

 

Organizations:

PrivacyRights.org

Identity Theft Resources

United States - Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Data Security Links from Credit Card Companies 

Visa - Cardholder Information Security Program

MasterCard - Site Data Protection Program

American Express - Data Security Operating Policy

Discover - Information Security and Compliance

Sample Credit Cards

Helpful Tools 

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