Payment Card Newsflash

Dear Credit Card Merchants: Here is another reason why the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the security of payment card information at the University of Florida cannot be taken lightly:

Dear Credit Card Merchants: Today the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), an open, global forum for the development of payment card security standards, published version 3.0 of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). Version 3.0 becomes effective on January 1st, 2014. This new version introduces more […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: An Article in today’s New York Times features the following headline: “Target Says Data Was Stolen From 40 Million Shoppers”. Read details at: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/target-looking-into-security-breach/?_r=0 This is another example why we at the University of Florida take the protection of credit card data seriously and strive at all times to adhere to […]

The UF Information Security Manager provided us with the following link informing us about malware targeting Point of Sale Systems: Read details at: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-002A The alert was issued by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (Dept. of Homeland Security) and addresses items that are familiar to us as they are also part of the […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: The following Fraud Alert has been provided by Elavon’s Loss Prevention Department: “Credit Back Scam: Our investigations have indicated fraudsters are targeting educational and non-profit merchants. The scam normally involves the merchant receiving a donation via email on a card issued in the United States. The merchant will then receive a […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: Please welcome our new addition to the payment card team in Banking & Merchant Services, Eric DeLaet Eric started with us on Friday, April 18th and is currently undergoing extensive training in the areas of payment card operations, eCommerce and PCI compliance. He is from Omaha, Nebraska, and his prior work […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: This Newsflash applies to all UF eCommerce (IPAY) merchants, who have outsourced credit card processing to CASHNet. You may disregard this notice if your implementation varies from the one described above. Due to a technical glitch earlier this year at HigherOne, Discover card transactions processed through IPAY/CASHNet were not properly settled […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: You may disregard this notice, if your method of credit/debit card processing is exclusively manual and does not involve any eCommerce (IPAY, QuickReg). We have updated our eCommerce Credit Card Refund form to reflect Banking & Merchant Services’ revised processes. For example, we eliminated the IP# column and provided additional lines […]

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requires merchants to educate personnel upon hire and at least annually. The current annual training consists of two online training classes accessible in myUFL under ‘My Self Service’ (Training and Development). All workforce members defined as employees, students or volunteers, who work with (process, store, transmit) […]

University of Florida departments and units wishing to engage in eCommerce or otherwise generate revenue by means of credit and debit cards are asked to contact Banking & Merchant Services’ Payment Card Operations team @ (352) 392-9057 or visit us on our new website: http://www.fa.ufl.edu/departments/treasury-management/card-ops/ We will walk you through the application process, assist you […]