by AVP Processing | Jan 25, 2017 | credit card security, EMV Chip, secure payment processing
Credit Card Processing Risk Management The issue of secure payment processing is obviously a longstanding battle between banking institutions and thieves, but this is a problem that affects both business owners and customers as well. We often think of the effects of... 
by Credit Card Processing | Jan 19, 2017 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, credit card security
We knew we’d have some “breachy” news to report this month — we always do — but little did we know how much! For starters, just up the boulevard from AVPS, L.A. Valley College decided to pay out $28,000 in BitCoin for a New Year’s Eve attack where... 
by AVP Processing | Jan 16, 2017 | mobile processing, secure payment processing
A Mobile Processing Performance Check-up to Help You Launch into 2017 If you’ve been reading the AVPS blog for the past few months, you know that we’re firm believers that mobile processing can boost efficiency. However, we also know how many small business owners... by Credit Card Processing | Jan 12, 2017 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, merchant services, secure payment processing
The CIO website is rife with predictions on coming cyber threats and data breaches for the coming year, laid out across several different articles. In one on Five Data Breach Predictions for 2017, they list, among the quintet of threats, a “focus on payment-based... 
by Credit Card Processing | Jan 5, 2017 | AVP merchant solutions info, AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, credit card security, merchant account solutions
Happy New Year, all! Of course, just because the calendar changes, that doesn’t mean the issues, ideas, and economic trends of the previous year suddenly “go away” either. Foremost among those, and something we report on often in this space, are breaches, “hacks,” and...