MasterCard's Security Changes and its impact on PCI Compliance

Over the past few months, MasterCard has made some major security changes that, seemingly, will impact PCI compliance now and in the future for quite a number of businesses.

First, MasterCard advised all Level 2 merchants (those processing between 1 - 6 million payments cards annually) that Self-Assessment questionnaires would no longer be sufficient for compliance; thus, Level 2 merchants would now be required to have a third-party perform an on-site assessment. This new change "can cost ,000 - ,000 per year for a merchant already PCI-compliant and more for a retailer meeting the standard for the first time."

Not too surprisingly, merchants are looking for alternative payment methods (i.e. PayPal) in order to reduce the number of card transactions.

MasterCard, with their second big security change, has decided to disallow merchants' use of RKI (remote key injection) services to install new encryption keys on POS systems. This new rule by MasterCard jeopardizes the on-going Triple DES compliance efforts for all POS terminals: merchants have until July 2010 to upgrade their POS terminals from DES to Triple DES. If this upgrade now has to be done manually, as opposed to automatically with RKI, it could make meeting the July 2010 deadline quite difficult for businesses with a large number of POS terminals.

ESET Smart Security v5 RC - Web Access Protection Not Working

The news is encouraging for me and you who love this ESET antivirus products. A few weeks ago (probably a month), ESET released ESET Smart Security v5 RC (Realease Candidate). I immediately tried to download the antivirus and install it on the Asus EeePC netbook 1015PEM mine. After I installed the antivirus, I see how it looks a bit interesting and better than ever. But I do not like the initial image that appears at start up, because the picture is less good and stiff, not smooth as in the fourth version.

In addition, when I want to update the antivirus. Antivirus update of 30 mega bytes more virus database. I think this may only occur at the beginning, because the virus database is still not up to date when newly installed. But the next day I update again, but why is the update is always a big? I got confused, but I still think it was fine.

A few weeks later, about two weeks I use ESET Smart Security v5 RC. I'm having an error in the web access protection, before this is absolutely not happened. I took this for granted, because there may be errors that occur at start up. Then I tried to restart my netbook, but the web access protection is still not want to walk. I wonder what happened to ESET Smart Security v5 this RC? I got confused and just looked at it as a matter of course because the antivirus is still included Realease Candidate, or practically still in the testing phase.

Before the web access protection disabled, I always look for the username and password with NOD32 key finder. Because the web access protection is always blocking proxy access, so I tried to disable the web access protection. However I did this two days before the web access protection is ultimately unviable. In addition, the antivirus is still a lot keurangan them every so often to make a windows system error, I suspect a virus that enters into my netbook and it found several infected registry files of windows that cause errors and crash. Okay, just a few responses I have about this antivirus, I recommend to wait for the antivirus is really perfect in its development.