by Credit Card Processing | Sep 21, 2017 | AVP merchant solutions info, AVP Solutions News and Events, credit card security, EMV Chip, secure payment processing
When this post first appeared last summer, we called it “The Breach Days of August,” sounding various alarums from what had been the just concluded Black Hat conference in Las Vegas (a gathering of mostly “white hat” hackers). In what surely...
by Credit Card Processing | Aug 18, 2017 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, Fintech
All Time High was a good name for a James Bond film theme. But it’s an unwelcome descriptor for a trend in data breaches and hacks. As we wrote earlier this year, Insurance Business Magazine reported, “there were 1,093 tracked data breaches in 2016, a new all-time...
by Credit Card Processing | Jul 14, 2017 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, holidays
Summer travel always brings with it a shifting list of do’s and don’ts, in terms of what to pack, where to go, what to expect if you’re queueing up for a TSA line, etc. It’s also been a good way to mark how people are feeling about the economy around them: Do they see...
by Credit Card Processing | Apr 12, 2017 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, card processing
Among the many types of hacks and frauds we warn about, or sadly have to post about (a report discussed by Reuters this week finds that “cyber security breaches erode companies’ share prices permanently”), one to be especially vigilant about is the “force sale”...
by Credit Card Processing | Mar 30, 2017 | AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events
Who knew that a better deal on credit card rates and fees was simply yours for the asking? Well, evidently everyone who picked up a telephone and dialed up and asked for it! And by “telephone” and “dialing,” we actually mean tapping the number pad on that little...
