Payment Card Newsflash

Dear Credit Card Merchants: We received the following alert from our credit card processor Elavon, Inc.: Visa has issued a Data Security Alert regarding an email phishing scam that is using the Visa Business News format to try to get users to click on a link or activate an executable. Please see Visa’s Security Alert […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: We received a moment ago the following update from our credit card processor Elavon, Inc. in regards to timeouts experienced today: “Elavon would like to inform you that the systems have been restored and are now operational. The issue has been identified and occurred from 11:06AM EDT to 11:20AM EDT. As […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: China UnionPay, also known as UnionPay or by its abbreviation, CUP, is the only domestic bank card organization in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Founded in March 2002, China UnionPay is an association for China’s banking card industry, operating under the approval of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC, central […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: We received the following alert from our credit card processor Elavon Inc.: Application/Service(s) Impacted: Visa Security Alert Time of Notification: 6:25 PM ET Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems May Be At Risk Of Malware That Steals Credit Card Data Malware comes in all shapes and sizes. Some malware is mass-distributed while other […]

Due to a CFO retreat scheduled for Wednesday, January 30, 2013, Banking & Merchant Services (including the cashiering office) will be closed. You will still be able to put deposits in the drop box, but will not be able to submit deposits over the counter, nor will any of the staff be available for assistance. […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: Due to scheduled training, Banking & Merchant Services (including the cashiering office) will be closed all afternoon Tuesday, February 19, 2013 (starting at 11:30 am). You will still be able to submit deposits over the counter as usual that morning and put deposits in the drop box any time that day. […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: You may have received in recent days a ‘Notice of Class Action Settlement Authorized by the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York’. It addresses a ‘$6+ billion settlement….to merchants that accepted Visa and MasterCard since 2004’. In 2005, various groups of merchants filed a number of class action lawsuits […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: Please be aware of Phishing and Spam emails! – It appears that some departments may have received during the past few days an email from Trustwave, Inc. (our Qualified Security Assessor) ‘warning’ you of a non-compliant status of your network based on their recent vulnerability scan. The message provides hyperlinks and […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: We received the following notification from our payment card processor, Elavon, Inc. for your information: “Windows XP SP3 Support Ends April 8, 2014 The Elavon PCI group has advised us that Windows XP will no longer be supported by Microsoft next year, and this may impact a merchant’s PCI DSS compliance. […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: This is to inform you that we have changed the format of the annual credit card security training that is mandated by PCI requirement 12.6.1. (merchants have to ‘educate personnel upon hire and at least annually’). Based on your feedback of prior years, we have replaced the Credit Card Security Workshops […]