Credit Card Magnetic Stripe [on hold]
I cleaned my credit card yesterday by using acetone and i noticed that some parts of magnetic stripe of my card slightly became pale black. Does acetone destroy magnetic stripe of the card? or not?
Category Archives: credit card
For chip credit cards, what’s preventing me from breaking the chip to trigger the magstripe failsafe?
In a few cases, the chip in my chip card (or maybe the chip reader) has malfunctioned. After inserting the card and failing 3 times, it said to swipe the card instead. What’s preventing me from cloning the magstripe to a card… Continue reading For chip credit cards, what’s preventing me from breaking the chip to trigger the magstripe failsafe?
Is it safe to use an auto pay feature on my smart watch that stores card info?
(So guess what I got for Christmas…)
While I do appreciate the tech and some of the features in the smart watch, I am skeptical of it’s biggest feature — the Pay feature which essentially duplicates your credit card’s mag… Continue reading Is it safe to use an auto pay feature on my smart watch that stores card info?
Is it safe to use an auto pay feature on my smart watch that stores card info?
(So guess what I got for Christmas…)
While I do appreciate the tech and some of the features in the smart watch, I am skeptical of it’s biggest feature — the Pay feature which essentially duplicates your credit card’s mag… Continue reading Is it safe to use an auto pay feature on my smart watch that stores card info?
Nissan Finance Canada Suffers Data Breach — Notifies 1.13 Million Customers
It’s the last month of this year, but possibly not the last data breach report.
Nissan warns of a possible data breach of personal information on its customers who financed their vehicles through Nissan Canada Finance and INFINITI Financial Services C… Continue reading Nissan Finance Canada Suffers Data Breach — Notifies 1.13 Million Customers
PCI – store card details offline
I work for a company that sends out mail/telephone order goods. Some customers have orders they receive every day, with different amounts.
We have been asked a few times by various customers if we can store there card detail… Continue reading PCI – store card details offline
PCI DSS compliant method to receive card data for a merchant with no electronic storage
The merchant in question has no electronic cardholder data storage.
Currently they receive CHD (no CVV) in non-secure ways and store it on paper in order to execute payments via card-not-present POS transactions.
PCI DSS compliant method to receive card data for a merchant with no electronic storage
The merchant in question has no electronic cardholder data storage.
Currently they receive CHD (no CVV) in non-secure ways and store it on paper in order to execute payments via card-not-present POS transactions.
Would one e breaking PCI compliance in this scenario?
First and foremost – I am not planning on going down the road of trying to adhere to PCI compliance myself, It’s simply not worth the headache. I am however interested in how some companies manage to do this.
Here’s the scen… Continue reading Would one e breaking PCI compliance in this scenario?
PIN delivery: do PCI DSS requirements prevent sending the PIN to an end-user’s mobile phone?
Do PCI DSS requirements prevent processors from sending to endusers’ mobile phones the PIN?
I went through many PCI documents, such as the PCI security requirements 2.0 and this isn’t mentioned. I’m not sure this is mentioned… Continue reading PIN delivery: do PCI DSS requirements prevent sending the PIN to an end-user’s mobile phone?