by AVP Processing | Oct 20, 2017 | AVP merchant solutions info, e-commerce merchant account, secure payment processing
The Equifax Breach and Your Business—What You Need to Know and Why it Affects You In early September, Equifax announced that it suffered one of the largest security breaches in U.S. history, putting the sensitive information of nearly 143 million Americans at risk. As...
by Credit Card Processing | Oct 12, 2017 | AVP merchant solutions info, AVP Solutions Merchant Info, AVP Solutions News and Events, holidays
“It’s going to get worse before it gets better,” we wrote as 2016 became 2017, citing a Guardian article that had proclaimed our previous year as “The Year of the Hack,” and what it meant for the year ahead, and the years after that — like, for instance, that...
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...
