Visa Alert Issued

While you are surely aware of the PCI issues and know at least some of the rules by now, you may not know about one of the many ways that your system can be accessed.  As everyone continues to tighten down their networks and network access, including remote access programs, hackers continue to find new ways to access your card data.  Visa sent a recent notification stating that, “Since January 2013, Visa has seen an increase in network intrusions involving grocery merchants.”  They also stated that, “At this time, it is known to affect only Windows operating systems.”  If you have a POS system that is running on a Windows operating system you should follow this link for some background information and several suggestions they have on how to prevent these attacks from occurring in your POS system.

Here is a link to this Visa Data Security Alert which contains several suggestions on how to combat Malware:  http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/alert-prevent-grocer-malware-attacks-04112013.pdf   This page links to several Visa Alerts including this one: http://usa.visa.com/merchants/risk_management/cisp_alerts.html