Last month we wrote this article about issues arising from the addition of new BIN ranges and the lack of clear guidance specifically with 16-digit PAN...
Many Canadians traveling to the US have experienced the frustration of running into a form of address verification. This is a common extra check...
Now is the time to stop using 64-bit block length ciphers such as 3DES (TDEA) and Blowfish in general purpose applications of cryptography. In 2016,...
Compliance simplification, what most people call “scope reduction”, can have huge benefits in terms of saving time, effort, headaches, and money....
On May 1st a critical new and possibly unprecedented vulnerability was announced. The flaw in Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) firmware will...
Barely a year after NIST approved Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) based on AES they've issued a news release that one of the approved modes has...
New 8-digit Bank Identification Numbers (BIN) could complicate PCI truncation rules and create compliance headaches for those required to maintain...
In recent news, WikiLeaks exposed a huge trove of CIA documents. Journalists and bloggers will of course have a field day with this and the general...
History The SHA-1 cryptographic hash function was introduced in 1995. Weaknesses began to be discovered in 2005, and in 2011 NIST deprecated SHA-1. The...