Visa Warns Software May Store PINs
March 25, 2006
By Gregg Keizer Courtesy of TechWeb News
Visa confirmed Monday it has issued an alert warning that some point-of-sale software may be storing PINs in violation of industry rules, leading to suspicions that the root of the recent debit card debacle may have been out-of-date or misconfigured software.
"….we provided a confidential alert to a limited number of financial institutions advising them that a particular configuration of certain software could cause it to store cardholder data," Visa said in a statement e-mailed to TechWeb. "We further advised them of the existence of a software upgrade designed to address the problem."
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal said it had seen a copy of the alert, which the newspaper claimed identified two point-of-sale (POS) programs created by Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc., a Frisco, Texas-based subsidiary of Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. In some settings, those programs -- RAFT and GlobalStore -- were retaining customer information.
Source: http://www.securitypipeline.com/
Visa confirmed Monday it has issued an alert warning that some point-of-sale software may be storing PINs in violation of industry rules, leading to suspicions that the root of the recent debit card debacle may have been out-of-date or misconfigured software.
"….we provided a confidential alert to a limited number of financial institutions advising them that a particular configuration of certain software could cause it to store cardholder data," Visa said in a statement e-mailed to TechWeb. "We further advised them of the existence of a software upgrade designed to address the problem."
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal said it had seen a copy of the alert, which the newspaper claimed identified two point-of-sale (POS) programs created by Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc., a Frisco, Texas-based subsidiary of Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. In some settings, those programs -- RAFT and GlobalStore -- were retaining customer information.
Source: http://www.securitypipeline.com/