Data Security
June 15, 2015 at 2:31 pm
As the EMV deadline quickly approaches, card issuers are scrambling to get chip-enabled cards into the hands of consumers, and many retailers are rushing to install EMV card readers and overhaul their point-of-sale (POS) systems. But is it the right time to do so? Despite all this urgency, retailers need to remember that EMV compliance…
June 12, 2015 at 3:25 pm
As the ever-expanding world of e-commerce opens unimaginable opportunities for retailers in the digital age, it's not free of trouble. This is the reality faced by too many companies, from web-based giants like Amazon.com to traditional brick-and-mortar chains such as Target. The immeasurable benefits from creating an online marketplace simultaneously present a valuable resource seen…
June 9, 2015 at 2:32 pm
A recent Ponemon Institute survey of 675 security professionals in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa confirmed that security professionals in retail organizations are most concerned about advanced threats (AT). Yet even in the wake of unprecedented data breaches at companies like Target and Home Depot, most retail companies have just begun to…
May 26, 2015 at 4:25 pm
A $19 million deal between Target and MasterCard to settle lawsuits stemming from the retailer's massive pre-Christmas 2013 data breach has been scrapped because it failed to get enough support from the affected banks and credit unions. While the rejection sends the companies back to the drawing board, advocates for the financial institutions said they…
May 14, 2015 at 3:39 pm
The Sally Beauty chain confirmed Thursday that it's suffered its second data breach in just over two years. The beauty products seller notified customers earlier this month that it was investigating reports of unusual activity on payment cards used at some of its U.S. locations. Sally Beauty Holdings Inc. wouldn't talk about the scope of…
May 11, 2015 at 4:32 pm
A proposed $19 million settlement between MasterCard and Target over the retailer’s 2013 data breach can move forward.
May 5, 2015
Sally Beauty said it is investigating “reports of unusual activity” on payment cards used at some U.S. stores.
May 4, 2015 at 2:00 am
Learn four ways online retailers can increase consumer trust and how that increased trust can lead to an increase in online sales.
April 14, 2015
The question isn't if your company will be the victim of a data breach, but when. Those were the sobering words of Martin Einstein, senior partner at Brann & Issacson, a law firm that represents online and multichannel companies, at the American Catalog Mailers Association's (ACMA) Forum last week in Washington, D.C. Einstein addressed the crowd of direct marketers on what they can do to mitigate their risk and exposure to a data breach, as well as how best to respond in the unfortunate event that a breach does occur.
April 8, 2015
The U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust division lauded the result of its e-commerce investigation into price fixing on Amazon Marketplace. The agency alleges that online seller David Topkins and other co-conspirators fixed pricing on certain posters sold through the Marketplace from September 2013 through January 2014. Topkins, along with Jonathan Garriss and Adam Hersh, was a principal of Gotham City Online and employee of Art.com at that time. Topkins and Garriss were also co-founders of an eBay seller association called PESA. The three business partners sold Gotham City Online's poster business (Poster Revolution) to Art.com in 2012.
