Heartland (HPY) Implements E2EE System
From Heartland Payment Systems
“Monday’s successful test involved Zones 1, 2, 3 and 4,” detailed Steven M. Elefant, Heartland’s executive director of end-to-end encryption. “We believe that protecting data in these zones alone will significantly impact the protection of cardholder data.
ISR News: Heartland Fights MasterCard Fine
Excerpts From Finextra
“Heartland therefore considers the MasterCard fine to be in direct violation of both the MasterCard rules and applicable law and it intends and is prepared to vigorously contest and it has recommended to its sponsor banks that they vigorously contest, through all means available including litigation if necessary any liability that may be asserted or imposed upon Heartland or its sponsor banks by reason of this fine,” says Carr.
Heartland Regains PCI Compliant Status
By Anthony M. Freed, Information-Security-Resources.com Financial Editor
Heartland’s removal from the list of compliant payment processors had followed revelations that the company had suffered what may have been the largest data breach of payment card information to date, although details of the incident and similar events at RBS WorldPay (RBS) have not been made available due to ongoing investigations.
ISR News: Visa Sanctions RBS Too
Excertps From BankInfoSecurity.com
In the statement, Visa confirmed that both Heartland and RBS WorldPay as a result of their recent data breaches, have been removed from the company’s Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliant Service Providers list. This list represents the service providers that Visa has validated as being PCI DSS compliant for merchants and other businesses to run their credit card transactions.
Visa Puts Heartland on Probation Over Breach
By Anthony M. Freed, Information-Security-Resources.com Financial Editor
System Participation - HPS is now in a probationary period, during which it is subject to a number of risk conditions including more stringent security assessments, monitoring and reporting. Subject to these conditions, Heartland will continue to serve as a processor in the Visa system.
ISR News: WorldPay Facing Class Action
Excerpts From SecurityFocus.com’s Robert Lemos
RBS WorldPay Facing Class Action Lawsuit Over Breach (February 6, 2009) Law firms in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Washington DC have filed a class action lawsuit against payment processor RBS WorldPay.
ISR News: WorldPay (CORRECTION: NOT PROPAY) Suffers $9M Heist
Excerpts From Blog.Wired.com
A carefully coordinated global ATM heist last November resulted in a one-day haul of $9 million in cash, after a hacker penetrated a server at payment processor RBS WorldPay, New York’s Fox 5 reports.
(CORRECTING EARLIER POST ON INFORMATION-SECURITY-RESOURCES.COM - NOT PROPAY IDENTIFIED IN DATA SECURITY BREACH)
ISR News: WorldPay Suffers $9M Heist
Excerpts From Blog.Wired.com
A carefully coordinated global ATM heist last November resulted in a one-day haul of $9 million in cash, after a hacker penetrated a server at payment processor RBS WorldPay, New York’s Fox 5 reports.
ISR News: Obama to Kaibosh CEO Mega-Pay
Excerpts From CNN.com
President Obama alluded to a change in executive salary in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday. “Tomorrow I’m going to be talking about executive compensation and changes we’re going to be making there,” he said. “We’ve now learned that people are still getting huge bonuses despite the fact that they’re getting taxpayer money, which, I think, infuriates the public.”
ISR News: Feds Warn of Security Meltdown
Excerpts From DarkGovernment.com
Computer attacks pose the biggest risk “from a national security perspective, other than a weapon of mass destruction or a bomb in one of our major cities,” said Shawn Henry, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division told the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York . According to multiple reports Henry went on to say terrorist groups aim for an online 9/11, “inflicting the same kind of damage on our country, on all our countries, on all our networks, as they did in 2001 by flying planes into buildings.”
