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One of the more common questions that I get from clients is whether other cardholder data elements such as name, expiry date, etc. need to be encrypted when stored in conjunction with the PAN (Primary Account Number) to be PCI compliant. As with most PCI DSS requirements many people, including QSAs, insist that anything that is stored in conjunction with the PAN need to be encrypted or otherwise rendered unreadable.

iTunes experienced a user account hack in which user accounts were stolen and unauthorized purchases made with those accounts over the July 4th long weekend.

For the past few months, I have been using Microsoft’s Security Essentials (MSE) as my anti-virus/anti-malware solution on all my Windows computers. I switched from another vendor after reading many reviews and looking at performance test results that said MSE was really good. Now this has been borne out by one more comparative test of anti-virus software from 20 different vendors.