Tag Archives: fraud

Hacktivist – Is It a Real Term?

  • By Bradley Cyprus
  • May 1, 2012

Recently the UK suffered an embarrassing attack on its “Home Office” website.  This is the English government agency responsible for anti-terrorism among other things.  The attack was in response to the US extraditing 3 UK citizens who are suspected of … More »

Could your restaurant survive a 15% decrease in business?

  • By Bradley Cyprus
  • February 10, 2012

The question we field more than any other when talking to small merchants is, “Who is making me become PCI compliant?”  The answer is too complicated to simply point at one entity and say, “It’s this guy, right here.”  In … More »

MasterCard EMV Announcement – The Reality

  • By Bradley Cyprus
  • February 3, 2012

In 2011, Visa announced a plan to introduce the Europay MasterCard Visa standard (EMV) to the US market, and to do so, they determined that they should incentivize large retailers to hop on board.  With that in mind they created … More »

Will Hacking Be This Generation’s Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?

  • By Bradley Cyprus
  • January 25, 2012

 It is hard to follow recent security events and not realize that at a minimum one Israeli business was successfully hacked resulting in the exposure of at least  14,000 credit cards.  A hacker, who goes by the name of xOmar 0, … More »