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	<description>Everything you ever wanted to know about Merchant Processing Accounts!</description>
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		<title>MasterCard and Discover Announce New Processing Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MasterCard and Discover announce new debit processing requirements.]]></description>
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		<title>PCI FAQ&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Accepting Checks Safely]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PCI Security is a very hot topic in the credit card processing industry these  days  .  Merchants don&#8217;t understand or accept PCI, and are frustrated by the new PCI compliance fees they are seeing on their merchant statements (if you haven&#8217;t seen yours yet&#8211;look harder).  Even worse, several processors and shady merchant services sales people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Scam Alert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Processing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends and Merchants: Just a quick reminder to those of you who use iPhones and Smartphones&#8211;and we know there are many of you out there judging from the number of you who use your Smartphone devices for mobile credit card processing. Be aware that there is an on-going &#8216;phishing&#8217; campaign impersonating Apple.com. The scamsters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Secure Payment Application for Google®&#8217;s Android™</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Secure Payment Application for Google®'s Android™]]></description>
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		<title>Pin Pad Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Processing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Verifone Pin Pad on sale--PCI compliant]]></description>
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		<title>PCI FAQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We get lots of questions from merchants about PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards).  So we&#8217;ve prepared a brief FAQ that should help answer many of these questions. Q: What is PCI/DSS? A: The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard details security requirements for members, merchants and service providers that store, process or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail Chain Settles Data Theft Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The parent company of TJ Maxx and Marshall&#8217;s has reached a settlement with several states related to a 2005-2006 data theft that exposed millions of payment card numbers to hackers, according to The Palm Beach Post. Reportedly, the Mass. based company will pay $2.5 million to create a data security fund as well as $5.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Major Processor Subject of Class Action Suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major Credit Card Processor sued by Credit Unions Several Credit Unions from Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana are lead plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Heartland Payment Systems over a massive data breach, according to an article published in the 3/28/2009 Palm Beach Post. New Jersey-based Heartland Payment Systems, the nation&#8217;s sixth largest credit card processor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit Card Processor Suffers Data Breach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Processing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major US processor suffers major data breach]]></description>
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