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Standards

What Retailers Need To Know About The New Telephone-Based Payment Card Data Guidance

March 13 2019

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• PCI SSC

“The highly anticipated new guidance provides a much clearer path for retail contact centers looking to ensure compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and provides critical recommendations on new technologies and processes for securing payment card data.”

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Standards

Deutsche Bundesbank eases banks into ISO 20022

January 15 2019

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• ISO 20022

“Deutsche Bundesbank, the German central bank, is using Swift MyStandards and Readiness Portal to support the European banking community migrate payment flows to the ISO 20022 standard. The central bank will use the platform to ensure a smooth transition for community members. Deutsche Bundesbank is a member of the four central bank service providers for the Target services. The Readiness Portal […]

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Standards

NFC Forum unveils technical specification that lets IoT devices use a single antenna for both NFC and wireless charging

January 18 2019

“The NFC Forum has released a new candidate technical specification that is designed to enable a single antenna in an IoT device to be used to manage both NFC communications and wireless charging.”

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Standards

The PCI Council Unveils Its New Software Security Standards

January 16 2019

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• PCI SSC

“The new set of requirements actually has two major components—The PCI Secure Software Standard and the PCI Secure Lifecycle Standard—and is under the umbrella of what the Wakefield, Mass.-based PCI Council calls its new Software Security Framework. The Council has been working on updating software security for more than a year, and indicated last month […]

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Security

Cyber Security for Consumer Internet of Things

February 22 2019

“The present document brings together widely considered good practice in security for internet-connected consumer devices in a set of high-level outcome-focused provisions. The objective of the present document is to support all parties involved in the development and manufacturing of consumer IoT with guidance on securing their products. “

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Security

FIDO2: Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices

February 25 2019

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• Authentication
• FIDO

“On Monday, Google and the FIDO Alliance announced that Android has added certified support for the FIDO2 standard, meaning that the vast majority of devices running Android 7 or later will now be able to handle password-less logins in mobile browsers like Chrome. Android already offered secure FIDO login options for mobile apps, where you […]

On The Wires

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Security

FIDO Alliance Specifications Now Adopted As ITU International Standards

December 18 2018

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• Authentication

“The FIDO Alliance, the industry consortium developing open, interoperable authentication standards, announced today that two of its specifications are now recognized as international standards by the International Telecommunication Union’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T). This milestone establishes FIDO UAF 1.11 and CTAP2 as official ITU standards (ITU-T Recommendations) for the global infrastructure of information and communication technologies (ICT).”

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Standards

US PAYMENTS FORUM RELEASES GUIDELINES FOR CONTACTLESS ATM TRANSACTIONS

December 19 2018

“With more than 85 percent of U.S. ATMs now accepting EMV contact chip cards[1], many ATM owners are looking to make transactions easier and faster by adding contactless EMV chip capabilities. The U.S. Payments Forum today released a new white paper for ATM owners and operators that provides guidance on accepting contactless chip transactions at the ATM.”

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Domains

Equinox Payments and ACCEO Tender Retail Deliver PCI 5.x-certified P2PE-ready Solutions on First Data Platform

January 14 2019

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• PCI SSC

“Equinox Payments (“Equinox”), a leading provider of payment terminals, software and services, and ACCEO Tender Retail today announced that the Equinox Luxe 8500i and Luxe 6200m payment terminals have achieved EMV end-to-end certification on First Data’s processing platform and are expected to be submitted to the PCI Security Standards Council in February for validation. The solution leverages the First Data payments […]

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Standards

Public consultation – SEPA Cards Standardisation Volume v8.5 and Tokenisation Considerations for SEPA Card Payments

December 26 2018

“The European Cards Stakeholders Group (ECSG), the industry association in charge of cards standardisation in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), is today releasing version 8.5 of the SEPA Cards Standardisation Volume (the Volume) for a three-month public consultation. The Volume is considered a key document for the cards industry, with a goal of achieving […]