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  Content sanitized for whose protection?

  It's a fascinating aspect of modern culture that even as we gain ever greater access to information, news and entertainment there are puritanical groups in our society who repeatedly attempt to push us back to some better, nicer, safer, prudish and, in many ways, more ignorant society. And the villain in the quest to "clean up Dodge" is not always who it might appear to be.

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  NFC uptake accelerating: Visa

  Despite some security loopholes remaining, near field communications technology is gaining a foothold in Australia, according to Visa A/NZ.

• PCI compliance requirements for Aussie businesses

  Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) refer to a set of standards that must be followed by big and small businesses alike when accepting, storing, processing and transmitting customers’ credit card information. To be compliant with PCI standards, all business owners, including online retailers, should adhere to 12 PCI compliance requirements for best security practices.

• Understanding PCI compliance auditing

  Businesses of all sizes must undertake PCI compliance auditing to ensure that their customers' data is protected during credit or debit card transactions and if stored within any internal business databases.

• PCI compliance checklist

  If you're business is obliged to undertake a PCI audit, then following a PCI Compliance checklist will ensure that you're security processes and payment processing meet the compliance standards. To ensure that you are meeting PCI compliance standards, you'll need to start by looking at what exactly PCI compliant means.

• PCI compliance services in Australia

  If you operate, own or hold a management role in an Australian business that stores, transmits and processes customer payment data, you may have recently been contacted by your bank regarding your PCI compliance status.

• Citigroup client accounts hacked

  US banking giant Citigroup said on Thursday that computer hackers have accessed information in about one per cent of accounts held by its US credit card customers.

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  Credit card breach hits CBA customers

  More than 8000 customers of the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) may have been affected by a credit card breach involving another unnamed bank merchant.

• Does Woolworths' payWave move hold security risks?

  Credit card company Visa announced yesterday that supermarket giant Woolworths had signed up to its new contactless payWave payment system. Visa has touted the convenience of the new system, which allows customers to make purchases under $100 without a signature or PIN; however, some industry analysts have warned of potential security pitfalls with contactless systems.

• Gamers hit back at Sony security breach

  Gamers have attacked Sony for waiting a week before revealing a security breach in the PlayStation Network, with industry experts calling for tougher privacy laws.

• Lax attitude to PCI, security costing businesses: Investigator

  Merchants who view security and payment card industry (PCI) compliance as an extra cost will be rueing the decision when hackers hoping to swipe credit card data strike, believes one industry specialist.

• Lush takes down hacked website

  Lush customers who have made online purchases may have to cancel their credit cards after the popular handmade cosmetics business was targeted by hackers.

• Russian charged with selling credit card numbers online

  A Russian man accused of selling stolen credit card numbers online for nearly a decade has been arrested in Nice, France, and faces charges in an indictment unsealed Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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  Visa's payclick takes on PayPal for micropayments

  Credit card giant Visa has entered the micropayment processing space with payclick, a pre-paid hosted service aimed at teenagers purchasing online line content such as music and games.

• Heartland, MasterCard settle over data breach

  Heartland Payment Systems has made a third settlement deal, this time with MasterCard, related to a massive data breach two years ago at the card payments processor.