There’s a new credit card security standard called “PCI DSS”…
And, if you read what is written in Australia’s “My Business” magazine, it; “demands your attention”.
Scroll down to this gem here but you’ll need the hardcopy to really get the gist of this awesomely stupid and poorly researched article. Where has “My Business” been for the last 3 years?
There is just so much in this article I could comment on, but it’s just not worth it and most people here would gain zero from anything I have to add. Worth a read for a sad laugh though!
One I will mention is that there is a table in there which I see is Visa’s (from somewhere…see later) and that’s described as; “See the handy at-a-glance table included in the article appearing in this month’s My Business for an indication of PCI DSS compliance chores in relation to the annual tally of credit card transactions”
The source is: http://www.visa.ca/en/merchant/fraudprevention/ais/merchlevels.cfm
For any readers of “My Business”, please skip over this article. Talk to your acquiring bank and QSA if you need further information. I can’t understand what message they have tried to convey. They seem confused by it all. Please “My Business”…you are a source of valuable information to small business….look at some quality control on what you publish.
September 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Gees, I posted too soon. I skip to page 70 and an article titled; “Repelling the hackers”.
Paragraph 1:
“Imagine for a moment that you are a hacker. Like most, you know your way around a computer, But you’re aware that computers are quite well defended these days. The glaringly obvious security holes in software have all been plugged and new ones are fixed within a short time of their discovery. Hacking in short, is therefore pretty hard these days.”
OMFG…..
The rest of the story focuses upon scams like the “Nigerian” scam and amazing things like “phishing” and “social engineering” and then talks about two-factor. Like the previous article, it ends with a plug for a vendor!
I see there are other IT Security related stories in this magazine now but I can’t read them. Really I can’t!
September 19th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
If the business world is exposed to ‘journalism’ like that, it would be no wonder that we struggle to get the message across. I caught the original feed DD with the “journos” name but I see now that it has been removed. Were you asked to do that? He’s done the lot of them from what I see online and the shit is bad bad bad!
September 19th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Didn’t you guys with the fat big galloot just cover this? Doesn’t the press in Australia follow you guys? That was some bad shit you posted. Glad I am not a small business in Australia relying on this guy’s advice. Happy to write stuff for small business magazine and I am but a pleb. Given that quality, I could become an IT Sec legend!
September 20th, 2008 at 8:57 am
No, I took it out intentionally and left it with the magazine. It’s good to see magazines like this start to focus on the issues but they do themselves and their readership a very big disservice with the quality of what they present.